Sean Goodwin

On the surface this is the River Liffey, flowing past the Church of Adam and Eve in Dublin into the bay near Howeth Castle. It is also the second half of the last sentence of the book. Here Joyce metaphorically connects Dublin with Eden and introduces the leading two characters Anna Livia Plurabelle (or ALP or the embodiment of womanhood - "all ladies present" - and as we later find, an embodiment of the River Laffey. She passes character two - Howeth Castle and Environs (HCE, or Anna's husband, Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, the embodiment of man, "Here comes everybody") Man and woman have met in Eden and in Joyce's circular Vicoesque world; the new cycle has begun. That is the first graph.