By shifting the focus of reading on the varied rhythms of the city space in James Joyce’s Dubliners, on the time-space-mind curvatures and the dissonances they effect, this chapter foregrounds Joyce’s central preoccupation with modes of writing that respond to the unrelenting pressures of urban living on the alignment between sensory experiences, per- ceptions, and articulated thought, without con- descension or moralism. It argues that the energy and vitality of the stories’ poetic rhythm lie in their capacity to make artistically visible and spatially perceptible the dissonances of these alignments, rendering the power of the city both transformative and alienating, critical and fortifying.