Linati schema for Ulysses
This, or explanatory outline for the novel Ulysses was produced by its author, James Joyce in 1920 in order to help a friend understand the fundamental structure of the book. The schema has been split into two tables for better ease of reading.
| Title | Time | Colour | People | Science / Art | Meaning |
| Telemachus | 8 — 9 a.m. | Gold / white |
| Theology | Dispossessed son in contest |
| Nestor | 9 — 10 a.m. | Brown | History | The wisdom of the ancients | |
| Proteus | 10 — 11 a.m. | Green | Philology | Primal matter | |
| Calypso | 8 — 9 a.m. | Orange | Mythology | The departing wayfarer | |
| Lotus Eaters | 9 — 10 a.m. | Dark brown | Chemistry | The temptation of faith | |
| Hades | 11 a.m. — 12 noon | Black-white | - | The descent into nothingness | |
| Aeolus | 12 noon — 1 p.m. | Red | Rhetoric | The derision of victory | |
| Lestrygonians | 1 — 2 p.m. | Blood red | Architecture | Despondency | |
| Scylla and Charybdis | 2 — 3 p.m. | - | Literature | The double-edge sword | |
| Wandering Rocks | 3 — 4 p.m. | Rainbow | Mechanics | The hostile milieu | |
| Sirens | 4 — 5 p.m. | Coral | Music | The sweet deceit | |
| Cyclops | 5 — 6 p.m. | Green | Surgery | Egocidal terror | |
| Nausicaa | 8 — 9 p.m. | Grey | Painting | The projected mirage | |
| Oxen of the Sun | 10pm - 11pm | White | Physics | The eternal herds | |
| Circe | 11 p.m. — 12 midnight | Violet | Dance | The man-hating ogress | |
| Eumaeus | 12 midnight — 1 a.m. | - | - | The ambush on home ground | |
| Ithaca | 1 — 2 a.m. | - | - | Armed hope | |
| Penelope | - | - | The past sleeps |