Schema

A Dead Man’s Ice Cream is heavily influenced by James Joyce’s Ulysses. Each of the 18 chapters is written in a different style and the schema below is designed to help the reader navigate the book.

Ch.	Title	Scene	Time	No.	Organ	Colour	Victim	Symbol	Art	Style
1	Welcome to the Untied Kingdom	Five Ways	August 2003	8	–	White Gold	Guy in the newspaper	Grandmother Virgin	Religion	Very simple language with play-on-words
2	Meet the genealogical stalker	The school	September 2003	10	–	Brown	Person in the news	Horse Salmon	Irish mythology	Mythological narrative in Kiltartanese
3	Mutual understranding	The canal	September 2003	11	–	Green	Philology student	Tide	Philology	Email
4	Friday Club diaries	The apartment	October 2003	8	Kidney	Orange	Girl dressed as a nymph	Nymph	Economics	A play in three acts
5	The ass is always thinner on the other thigh	The bath	October 2003	10	Genitals	–	Man at the botanical garden	Flower	Botany Chemistry	Narcissism
6	The stress of Birmingham is burning	The graveyard	October 2003	11	Heart	White Black	Churchgoer	Caretaker	Religion	Decomposed description
7	The shadow of the White Elephant	Gibraltar Andalusia	November 2003	12	Lungs	Red	News editor	Wind	Politics	Draft notes
8	Field report	An online forum	December 2003	1	Oesophagus	–	An architect	Constable	Architecture	Blogging
9	Dual citizens: two cultures but no nation	The library	December 2003	2	Brain	–	English literature teacher	Stratford London Dublin	Literature	Dialectic
10	Would you like toes with that?	The streets	January 2004	3	Blood	–	Car mechanic	Citizens	Mechanics	Second person narration
11	Let’s call him Mr Bright Side	The concert room	January 2004	4	Ear	–	A DJ	Barmaids	Music	Musical
12	The death of the Cyclops	An apartment above a pub	February 2004	5	Muscle	–	An ex-army guy	Sound	Linguistics	Academic article
13	Closing your eyes opens your ears	At Dr Pope’s	March 2004	8	Eye Nose	Grey Blue	A painter	Pebbles	Painting	Sensory
14	Medical notes on life	The hospital	April 2004	10	Womb	White	A mother	Mothers	Medicine	Medical notes
15	Circe plays us all	The brothel	April 2004	12	Locomotor apparatus	–	A strip dancer	Sex industry	Magic	Hallucination
16	No shelter for the vulnerable	The shelter	May 2004	1	Nerves	–	Old sailor	Sailing Abused civilisations	Navigation	Heroic narrative
17	To see it, you need to want to see it	The house	May 2004	2	Skeleton	–	Philosophy student	Comets	Philosophy	Ordered internal dialogue
18	We spend our whole lives waiting	The nightclub	June 2004	–	Flesh	–	It depends on how you look at it	Ashes	–	Internal monologue