To see Joyce at work on the Wandering
Rocks was to see an engineer at work with
compass and slide-rule, a surveyor with theodolite and
measuring chain… Joyce wrote the Wandering
Rocks with a map of Dublin before him on which
were traced in red ink the paths of the Earl of Dudley
and Father Conmee. He calculated to a minute the time
necessary for his characters to cover a given distance
of the city (Budgen 123, 124–125).
This data visualization presents episode
10 of James Joyce’s Ulysses (“Wandering
Rocks”) in ways that highlight its multiple and
clashing spatiotemporalities.