24th june 2004
Fortyfoot hole, Sandycove. The carefully painted sign put up by the Sandycove Bathing Association reads: TOGS MUST BE WORN. Mulligan can no longer be (entirely) stripped of his garments.
Slight disillusionment regarding Joyce's famous use of a stopwatch to plan his narrative: to walk from the foot of the tower to this spot takes two minutes tops, yet the scene in the book feels, from its structure and conversations, as if a much longer distance were being traversed.