In approaching the structure of Ulysses as a newspaper landscape it is well to call to mind a favorite book of Joyce’s, The Purple Island of Phineas Fletcher. The author’s name suggesting Finn the arrow-maker. Fletcher presents the anatomy and labyrinths of the human body in terms of an enchanted Spenserian landscape. Many have pointed out the importance of the human form of the sleeping giant, the collective consciousness, as the structure of the Wake. And Joyce was careful to instruct his readers in the relation between the episode of Ulysses and our bodily organs. (In 1844 the American press greeted the telegraph as “the first definite pulsation of the real nervous system of the world.”)