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It's a safe rule-of-thumb that Joyce normally composed by addition or 'accretion' of new phrases, not deletion.But deletions are not entirely unknown, so it's not a safe policy to (blindly) restore everything that might have been dropped accidentally... as Gabler often seems to assume!
Kidd (pp444f) analyses deletion patterns from the Telemachia, suggesting that since nine items were deleted from the Philadelphia manuscript with heavy blacking, just one of which (2.349 below) was specifically requested to be deleted in a surviving postcard, Joyce may have requested all nine the same way... which would indicate a (very surprising) strong counter-motive of keeping the text trim.
Gabler has analysed an identical set of problems for Portrait: [article].
So I'll try to collate below all the occurrences I know where Joyce may have deleted words or phrases.
1. "He crammed his mouth with fry and munched and droned."
1.248/9.32 "to cover the sun slowly, wholly,"
[LR/G] G in agreement with LR, restoring 'wholly'
1.417/14.18 "Look at that now, she said."
I agree with G that Sykes skipped this line in error
1.428/14.32 "Are you from the west, sir?"
printer eyeskipped 'the'
1.444/15.10 "is a shilling. That's a shilling and"
Peake finds the apparent eyeskip from shilling to shilling acceptable, but I prefer G's restoration.
1.490/16.16 "Would I make money by it?"
a very difficult one, because it might be semantically significant. G restores the manuscript's 'any money' but I agree with Peake we should stick with the version J repeatedly proofed.
1.547/17.40 "he has made to prop it up"
[LR] (G restored the less poetic 'made out')
2.246 "it seems"
maybe deleted by J
2.349 deletion "And now it has come."
Kidd points out this was deleted by postcard (to Sykes)
2.380 "All human history moves towards one"
3.79 "Sit down and take a walk."
3.134 "naked women! naked women!"
I reject G's caps (from P not R) but accept the lost doubling
3.141 "epiphanies written on green"
'written' maybe deleted
3.151 "Unwholesome sandflats waited to suck his treading soles, breathing upward sewage breath, a pocket of seaweed smouldered in seafire under a midden of man's ashes."
3.227 "A E pimander, good shepherd of men"
this (dubious) restoration reads a little better with no comma here
3.405 "Thanking you for hospitality tear the blank end off."
G restores 'the' after for
3.451 "His arm: Cranly's arm."
3.473 "landward, a pace a pace a porpoise"
a messy one-- G swaps the phrases, and claims J may have dropped the last 'a'
4.233 "Yes, I am here now."
missing
4.529 "I noticed he had a good rich smell off his breath dancing."
maybe 'rich' deleted
5.156 "fair man. Letter. Cat furry"
maybe 'Letter.' deleted
5.259 "x x x x"
I'll accept G's restoration
5.403 "music is... the Gloria... were keen"
G deletes is-the-were, following "C" not "D" (?)
6.361 "coroner's ears"
G restores awkward 'sunlit'
7.817 "loose neckcloth"
G restores uncopied insertion 'white silk' but I find it wordy enough to reject
8.497 "there. Wouldn't"
G offers a wordy rationalization for restoring 'Like a mortuary chapel.' here
8.569 "Looking up from the back garden."
I accept G's restoration, assuming it was overlookable on ms
8.962 "He's an excellent brother."
G's restoration (but how would Nosey know?)
8.471 "Thought"
if I read G right, J was trying to delete leading 'The'
8.497 "there. Wouldn't"
G offers a wordy rationalization for restoring 'Like a mortuary chapel.' here
8.569 "Looking up from the back garden."
I accept G's restoration, assuming it was overlookable on ms
8.660 "gristle: no"
G restores 'gums:' from LR
8.962 "He's an excellent brother."
G's restoration (but how would Nosey know?)
8.1140 "between waistcoat"
G restores awkward 'his'
8.1185 "Busy looking for."
G claims J tried to drop 'for'
9.367 "In my priest."
9.427 "-- Will he not see reborn in her, with the memory of his own youth added, another image? [par] Do you know what you are talking about? Love, yes. Word known the all men. Amor vero aliquid alicui bonum vult unde et ea quae concupiscimus... "
9.455 "and he had"
G restores dubious 'he' from ms
9.456 "(ryefield"
G restores ms 'a ryefield'
9.482 "Amen! responded"
G restores slightly-more-jarring 'was responded' from ms
9.599 "Last year."
restored by G, with editorial period
10.714 "mouth:"
G restores dubious 'mouth gently'
10.757 "Lambert's"
G restores doubtful Ned
10.1109 "Wilde's"
G restores unneeded 'house'
10.1218 "Dudley on him"
G restores 'fixed on him'
11.757 "Clapclipclap."
G restores additional word 'clap' from ms
11.759 "Mina"
G restores 'Kennedy' as well
11.782 "voice lives not"
I'll accept G's restoration of this repetition
11.858 "Just I was looking... "
J apparently deleted 'Just the ad'
11.901 "Right."
G restores unneeded leading 'There.'
11.1049 "Music hath charms. Owls and birds."
11.1101 "martyrs that want to, dying to, die. For all things dying, for all things born."
martyrs. For all things dying, want to, dying to, die. For that all things born.
11.1263 "battered candlesticks"
12.566 deletion "Borus Hupinkoff"
G restores from early notes
13.400 "all about"
happy 'all' found only in Little Review
13.498 "sing Tantum"
G imports draft 'the'
13.621 "the veil round him"
I'm relocating 'round him' here (G just deletes it)
13.675 "and genuflected"
I accept G's importing this from a draft
13.687 "intention now"
I'm importing 'now' from a draft
13.700 "knew"
G restores ms 'knew too'
13.728 "back he"
G restores unneeded ms 'that'
13.776 "Wouldn't mind"
G restores 'I wouldn't' from ms, but this looks authorial to me
13.1021 "anything, rainbow"
G restores unneeded draft 'like rainbow'
13.1208 "a gentleman"
G restores unneeded 'rich' from draft
13.1283 "years dreams"
G restores unneeded 'of'
13.1280 "plump bubs me breadvan Winkle red slippers she rusty sleep wander years of dreams"
14.154 "was marvel"
G restores unhappy ms 'a'
14.1544 "Time."
G innovates 'Time, gents!'
15.2736 "Tansy and pennyroyal."
G restores this, from ms I assume. But it may have been intentionally deleted.
15.4176 "No."
G restores word from ms, maybe incorrectly?
15.4214 deletion "His noncorrosive sublimate!"
G admits he's guessing where this belongs, so much better to leave it out.
16.161 "Got"
G reverts to ms 'I got'
16.191 "them, or where was, or did he buy?"
G reverts to 'them he wondered or where was or did he buy.'
16.318 "Farabutto! Mortacci sui!"
G restores two extra lines not plausibly dropped in error
16.418 "That's where I hails from. I belongs there. That's where I hails from."
(i'll accept G's unhappy reconstruction under severe protest, until I see the evidence)
16.596 "not turning a hair,"
(J may well have deleted this intentionally)
16.606 "roughly"
(J may have deleted this intentionally)
16.778 "with a smile of unbelief"
G restores this from draft, but not copied by J
16.815 "But oblige"
G reverts to odd 'But O, oblige'
16.854 "outline, the"
G reverts to ms 'outline of the'
16.899 "and the"
G restores (unhappy) dropped 'then' from draft
16.947 "before composing his limbs again in to the arms of Morpheus"
I accept G's restoration of 'to' from ms
16.1103 "in the next house,"
I suspect J did delete this, but I like it okay (comma added)
16.1112 "blood-- bump... flag-- were"
G restores commas plus the dropped 'from some'
16.1124 "Because they are imbued with the proper spirit. They"
I warily accept G's restoration of this sentence
16.1247 deletion "Or a change of address anyway."
interesting, but I suspect J meant to drop it
16.1260 "Cornelius Kelleher"
G restores middle initial T
16.1281 deletion "Sceptre a shade heavier, 5 to 4 on Zinfandel, 20 to 1 Throwaway (off)."
G restores this from draft???
16.1354 "She loosened many a man's thighs."
interesting restoration
16.1386 "Poser."
maybe deleted intentionally?
16.1455 "Marble could give the original, shoulders, back, all the symmetry, all the rest. Yes, puritanisme, it does though Saint Joseph's sovereign thievery alors (Bandez!) Figne toi trop. Whereas no photo could because it simply wasn't art in a word."
16.1452 "symmetry. All the rest, yes, Puritanism. It does though, St Joseph's sovereign... whereas"
G restores unhappy: 'symmetry, all the rest. Yes, puritanisme, it does though Saint Joseph's sovereign thievery alors (Bandez!) Figne toi trop. Whereas'
16.1513 deletion "a silk one"
G restores from draft (if you include it, it should get commas)
16.1569 "even were"
I'll accept G's restoration of 'even'
16.1594 "by our friend"
G restores phrase
16.1629 "where age was no bar"
G restores possible deletion from draft
16.1637 "gentle"
G restores possible deletion from draft
16.1646 "Do you like cocoa?"
G restores possible deletion from draft
16.1719 "Come."
G restores from happy draft
16.1761 deletion "sing it"
G restores unneeded phrase from draft
16.1804 "handsome"
G restores from draft
17.733 "By juxtaposition. On the penultimate"
17.1822 "(erroneously)"
G restores from ms
18.47 "to show"
1922 had "for the matches to show" (undeleted first thought?)
18.804 "yes"
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