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Gabler nodding? (overview)

"This is not a genetic display, since Gabler disregards those stages of composition that precede the first complete fair copy, the so-called Rosenbach manuscript. And it is not a complete record of the genetic history of the text; it only contains authorial variants, i.e. those changes and additions to the typescripts and page proofs that are in Joyce's hand or that can be shown to be authorial." --Geert Lernout [cite]

These pages are an updating of my 'online Ulysses repair kit' [qv] with added notes, documenting the choices in my own Ulysses edition [qv].

Overall, it appears Gabler was trying to maximize the number of changes he could justify, resulting in some 1000 dubious choices. The software he used [docs] may also have contributed to the problem.

NEW: 02April 2002: Gabler replies: "Dear John Barger, some of this may be food for thought, and discussion -- but why don't you discuss the lines of argument that led to editorial decisions as they are documented in the apparatus (synoptic apparatus, footnotes, appended apparatuses, textual notes). While some editorial decisions are critical, as they cannot be otherwise [and in such cases find their basic reasoning in the Afterword to the edition], a great number rely on document and bibliographic evidence -- and hence leave no room for alternatives. Sincerely, Hans Walter Gabler."

Jorn's reply: "I certainly did read all that material, but was wholly unconvinced. But please pick any particularly interesting instance, and explain why my disagreement is invalid." [forum]

New: Joyce's capitals; Joyce's typists; Joyce's deletions, commas, compounds, other punctuation

[compare]

This first page now offers an overview of just the most interesting items for the whole book, with separate pages detailing all my differences from Gabler: Details: ch1-10 ch11-15 ch16-18

1.3/3.3 "sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air"

not 'on'. G's great error with ch1 was imagining the placards were set from an uncorrected typescript, when in fact they were set from a carefully proofed copy of the Little Review (or Egoist?). I'll abbreviate similar corrections as 'LR' below

1.6/3.7 "and called up coarsely"

'out' is arguably better but J consistently okayed 'up' [LR]

1.10/3.11 "the surrounding country"

not 'land' [LR]

1.21/3.23 "Christine"

J inserted this with a lowercase c, but okayed every subsequent copy with the cap. (G shows an erasure, and if it proves to be replacing an uppercase C I guess I'll change this.) [pic]

1.24/3.26 "a long low whistle of call"

not 'slow' [LR]

1.314/11.25 "briskly about the hearth to and fro, hiding and revealing"

G moves 'to and fro' after briskly as in the ms, but I agree with Peake the later versions are an improvement

1.411/14.12 "If we could live on good food"

G rejects 'could only live' in all editions, in favor of the manuscript. I go along for poetic reasons.

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')

1.602/19.23 "his brief birdlike cries"

[LR]

1.638/20.27 "I am the servant of two masters"

[LR] (not 'a servant')

2.124 "tangled"

G opts for unhappy 'thick' (also at 2.139)

3.13 "nacheinander"

G reverts to ms cap(s)

3.23 "Acatalectic"

I'm accepting G's logic, but this one needs its own page

3.116 "bald poll!"

G reverts to compound, but that rhythm doesn't work for me with the exclam

3.212 "hands"

G reverts to acrobatic ms singular

3.227 "AE pimander"

this (dubious) restoration reads a little better with no comma here

3.402 "womb"

G reverts to LR/E's 'moomb', assuming very unlikely placard typo

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'

3.487 "his my"

G reverts to unhappy ms compound

4.95 "watches"

G restores unhappy ms 'watches me'

4.111 "Bald head"

G reverts (?) to ms compund

4.133 "it with"

G restores unhappy ms 'you'

4.135 "Or more"

makes more sense than 'O more'

4.279 "fingers, ringwise,"

G deletes commas, pleading "e"

5.79 "the letter"

G restores duplication

5.94 "E... eleven"

G would have us believe the typist substituted this reading for 'Eeleven'!

5.156 "man. Cat"

G restores 'Letter.'

5.203 "Nathan's voice!"

I accept G's rejection of dialog-dash, overriding "aR,(aD)

5.255 "headache. today. and"

I'll accept G's reconstruction w/periods

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" (?)

5.455 "Annoyed..."

G has a wordy note about the sequence here

6.10 "twice"

maybe 'tight'

6.199 "reply: passed"

G restores attractive 'spruce figure:', but J may have decided to keep it just a glimpse of hat

6.361 "coroner's ears"

G restores awkward 'sunlit'

6.532 "himself!"

G reverts to plausible qmark

6.585 "prayingdesks"

sD requested split, but it reads wrong

6.612 "doner"

G claims 'goner' was from "s6"?

6.661 "gravely, looking"

G rejects badly-needed comma

6.662 "secret searching"

G rejects sD split

6.665 "church, used in Mount Jerome, is simpler, more impressive, I"

G rejects all commas but one, despite J's proofing

6.950 "Hu!"

G reverts to ms 'Hoo'

6.986 "fever pit"

G reverts (?) compound-plural, overriding "a1"; I revert to singular to match 'chamber'

Gabler did a respectable job on this one, although he rejects typescript corrections as "sD" not Joyce, when they were surely Joyce's.

7.45 "stately"

G reverts to unhappy 'statelily'

7.57 "Jesus Mario"

Kidd accepts G's reversion to Jesusmario, but I don't see how the printer could have misread the typescript in exactly the style of the manuscript!?!

7.70 "through the sidedoor"

Kidd protests G's (happy, to my ear) reversion to 'a' here

7.72 "Thumping, thumping."

Kidd protests G's reversion to period-cap

7.76 "Hynes..."

I warily accept G's relocating this par (and several others: 7.325, 7.603, 7.961) above the headline

7.76 "Thumping thump."

G reverts to period-cap

7.171 "could"

G reverts to should

7.206 "mangiD."

G reverts to no-period, overriding "a1" and "a2" and "a3"

7.223 "these"

G reverts to less-happy 'those'

7.231 "see: before: dressing"

I'd be happy with 1922's no-colons, if I knew where they went

7.270 "Cicero's"

G reverts to tempting ms 'Cicero'

7.305 "their"

G reverts to 'the' overriding "a1"

7.557 "Dominus!"

G reverts to plausible 'Domine!' but sD underlined this form

7.557 "Lord Jesus? Lord Salisbury?"

messy: 1922 has exclam and period???

7.591 "Castile"

esthetically I like 1922's Castille, but historically and genetically, Castile seems the safer choice

7.600 "Bastille"

G defends J's Bastile

7.640 "Skin-the-Goat"

I accept G's reversion to cap-G for purely esthetic reasons

7.648 "is he?"

G reverts to plausible 'is it?' but cf 7.644 just above

7.722 "in gold"

G claims J tried to delete happy 'in'

7.802 "a sweet thing in a child's frock, Myles Crawford said."

G's note explaining why he puts Fitzgibbon back in the frock is wonderfully fatuous

7.817 "loose neckcloth"

G restores uncopied insertion 'white silk' but I find it wordy enough to reject

7.870 "enjoying silence"

G restores unhappy 'a'

7.899 "cried, slapping"

G reverts to ms 'clapping', ignoring consonant-clash

7.928 "glistening"

G reverts to unhappy ms 'glistering'

I have the JJA facsimile of the typescript here, which is very revealing. The typewriter had an unresponsive spacebar so many, many words are run together. Someone went thru and marked these for repair, also splitting a lot of J's compounds. But most of these compounds (not all) survived unsplit into 1922. G hardly mentions this layer (an occasional "sD"), rejecting it as not-Joyce.

But Joyce clearly went over the typescript very carefully, changing many details of punctuation etc, so it's inconceivable to me that sD was anyone else. So the splits look to me like J trying for episode-specific styling (LB's sluggish mind taking words one by one), as with the extra commas in Eumeus.

But since many of the most extreme splits (eg 'pine apple') didn't survive, I'll go with 1922 in general.

8.123 "men"

G innovates 'sandwichmen' based on LR's 'sandwich men'

8.146 "of woman"

G restores plausible 'of a'

8.149 "She knew, I"

a killer! G restores 'She knew I, I' from ms, but typescript shows 'B' written on top of the first 'I'

8.165 "wore it"

G opts not to restore LR's happy 'it'

8.258 "U.P:"

G innovates 'U.p:'; I agree on losing the last point but not the cap until 8.274 and 8.320

8.316 "stick, umbrella, dustcoat"

G overrides "sD" and "a5" to restore 'stickumbrelladustcoat'

8.338 "today"

G reverts to tempting 'toady' overriding sD

8.381 "it pensive"

G accepts typist's unrhythmic 'the'

8.409 "into"

G reverts to jarring 'in'

8.463 "Or gas"

I warily accept G's restortion here

8.471 "Thought"

if I read G right, J was trying to delete leading 'The'

8.472 "Show"

maybe Shove

8.497 "there. Wouldn't"

G offers a wordy rationalization for restoring 'Like a mortuary chapel.' here

8.506 "Boulger"

J changed this to 'Kavanagh' for the Little Review, which G prefers

8.580 "to his side again"

I hope G is wrong in moving 'again' to the end of this phrase

8.589 "humming: the"

messy: everybody has awkward cap-T; G reverts to ms period; LR had italics; I'll de-cap the t

8.594 "With a keep quiet relief, his eyes took note: this is street here middle of the day Bob Doran's bottle shoulders."

G rejects sD's changes: ha->a, colon-added, 'the' deleted before street. G also restores typist (?) deletions: 'quiet keep quiet' and 'of Bob'

8.623 "La causa è santa!"

G overrides "a1" to revert to ms version

8.651 "slop"

G opts for tempting 'slush' from LR

8.660 "gristle: no"

G restores 'gums:' from LR

8.670 "Spaton"

(I'm sorely tempted to revert to much clearer ms 'Spat-on')

8.755 "Mity cheese"

but 1922's 'Mighty' may be Bloom's pun?

8.825 "It ruined many a man the same horses."

G restores ms comma after 'man' but Niall Montgomery (in 1951) singled out "the precision of the dropped comma" here, and Kenner made this the only point on which he questioned Gabler's judgment

8.844 "numskull"

G rejects sD's deletion of 'b' (but who else but J would bother??)

8.908 "sweetsour of her spittle"

G's happy restoration

8.1037 "or place"

G fails to delete probable typist's 'a'

8.1071 "Rome. Birds' Nest women"

way messy: sD (???) changed to bizarre qmark, underlined and cap-N'd Bird's Nest, and period-capped 'Nest. Women'

8.1074 "Why we left the church of Rome?"

G restores italic and rejects qmark

8.1172 "Not see. Not see."

G blames dup on typo, but it works and J allowed it

8.1173 "strides"

G claims J tried to change this to (timider) 'steps'

9.34 "Ed egli..."

this line sorely wants de-italicising

9.190 "Flow..."

G doesn't explain why he doesn't indent this, so presumably he blames the printer

9.266 "--Between"

I warily accept G's restoring leading dash (to differentiate it from SD's thoughts)

9.322 "-- Synge"

G overrides p1E errata list and rejects leading dash, as this par is not strictly direct quotation (from a single speaker)

9.482 "Amen! responded"

G restores slightly-more-jarring 'was responded' from ms

9.526 "Wills."

G restores very unhappy ms qmark

9.610 "when"

G silently (??) reverts to unhappy ms 'where'

9.684 "To whom thus Eglinton: You"

G moves this intro onto the same line with the start of the (indented) speech. (I've used HTML 'center' as a compromise, also at 9.689 and 9.691)

9.700 "Punkt"

G reverts to ms uncentered-with-period

9.1045 "giants, ghosts,"

G neglects rhythmically-happy swap

10.100 "lying"

G reverts to dubious ms 'lie'

10.141 "grinned"

G reverts to (jarring) ms grimaced

10.614 "eyeing"

G reverts to oddlooking eying

10.714 "mouth:"

G restores dubious 'mouth gently'

10.805 "evil lights"

G idiotically restores comma

10.1135 "God"

G reverts to unhappy Gob

10.1215 "all times ticking"

G reverts to unahppily-ambiguous compound

It's looking to me like Joyce went over the text before it was typed and changed many commas to improve the rhythms (rather than the meanings), but Gabler consistently rejects these as typos. Unfortunately, there do also seem to be many uncaught typos, so this episode requires particulaly delicate handling.

11.7 "Gold pinnacled"

G reverts to tempting compound, but J never fixed it, and I think the rhythm is slightly better with two words

11.8 "breast"

G restores plausible singular

11.13 "fade. Notes chirruping answer. O rose! Castile."

way messy. G thinks the typist moved 'O rose' to published position: 'fade. O rose! Notes chirruping answer.' I'll accept this until I've learned more. but G also thinks there are two lines here, which makes no sense.

11.14 "Castile"

J always spelled this Castile, but allowed it to be everywhere 'corrected' to Castille. Balfe's opera usually has one ell, as does the region in Spain. The double-ell spelling seems to be French, but looks much better to me.

11.31 "moonlight"

G acknowledges this 1936 revision makes sense

11.64 "Miss"

G blames caps on typist, thruout, but J could just have said 'fix these'

11.100 "bootsnout"

G 'corrects' to unhappy bootssnout, pleading only "e'???

11.164 "bending again"

G deletes rhythmically-happy again, blaming typist

11.174 "after bronze in gold"

G opts for plausible ms revision 'after, gold after bronze'

11.286 "the diningroom"

G restores 'the bar and...'

11.299 "Tanks"

G reverts humorlessly to Thanks

11.303 "is. Third"

G restores unneeded 'Again.'

11.352 "he. All said four."

G opts for risky 'she. Who said four?'

11.353 "Adam's apple"

G opts for unhappy 'bulging apple'

11.397 "note, pealed in the treble, clear. Bronzedouce, communing"

G reverts to no-commas, improbably blaming typist

11.413 "let"

G reverts to unhappy 'set'

11.419 "drankoff"

G opts plausibly for two words

11.500 "Marion met... burn of"

G reverts to period-cap for each of these, but it's obviously a pattern

11.568 dubious "Jingle."

G restores from ms but I'll need to see it to judge

11.606 "jingle"

G opts for unhappy ms jingly

11.611 "Ah, what M'Guckin!"

(why does the 1922 etext have the much happier 'that'?)

11.639 "Still hold her back."

G repositions after 'danger' (what does it mean???)

11.693 "Alas! The"

G reverts pigheadedly (!) to ms no-punct-no-cap

11.705 "jimjam"

G reverts to less-happy jamjam

11.748 "ethereal"

Kidd implies J okayed this correction from etherial (also 11.835)

11.750 "endlessnessnessness..."

G allows many more dots, plausibly

11.782 "voice lives not"

I'll accept G's restoration of this repetition

11.824 "fine"

G reverts to less-interesting 'line'

11.858 "looking... "

G rejects ellipses

11.870 "pin"

G opts for ms 'string'

11.903 "U.p: up."

G reverts to ms cap-P

11.961 "one, one, one"

G reverts to plausible five-of-these, but I don't think J proofed so carelessly.

11.963 "cattle market"

G imposes compound, overriding "aP" and "aR"

11.984 "Diddle iddle addle addle oodle oodle."

G reverts to unhappy compounds

11.1038 "Kennedy, George Lidwell eyelid well expressive, fullbusted satin, Kernan, Si"

G reverts to period-comma-comma-period-period

11.1071 "old. But when was young?"

I'll accept this as better than 'old but when was young.'

11.1079 "own"

G opts for 'owny'

11.1115 "reposed"

I hesitantly accept G's restoration here, over the obvious 'repassed'

11.1130 "doorway, straining ear, Bloom"

G reverts INSANELY to no-commas (sorry)

11.1143 "heard growls"

G restores unrhythmic 'the'

11.1175 "Mina. And"

G restores unneeded extra 'Mr Dollard.'

11.1225 "Counted them."

I'll hesitantly accept G's restoration

11.1229 "Mickey"

1922 Micky is consistent with J's spelling, but ms has this in J's hand

11.1254 "endearing."

G reverts to odd qmark

12.71 "gunnard"

G reverts to draft 'gurnard' (correct spelling)

12.237 "son?"

G agrees with 1922 on the awkward 'son!'

12.271 "G. man"

G overrides all editions, dropping period

12.281 "foaming"

G reverts to (cliched) ms 'foamy'

12.399 "daughter. Mother"

G says J's correction to comma-no-cap was never fixed, but I'll stick with the published

12.415 "7, Hunter"

G reverts to the (too grammatical) ms no-comma

12.429 "ginnese"

G reverts to ms 'ginnees'

12.504 "Pisser"

G reverts to ms no-cap

12.566 [omitted]

G restores 'Borus Hupinkoff' from early notes

12.612 "Hard by"

G reverts to implausible ms 'Hand by'!??

12.621 "terracotta"

G reverts to ms 'terra cotta'

12.715 "wolfdog setter"

G argues J wanted 'setter wolfdog' but it's hard to see how the printer could have made this error

12.889 "sport"

G reverts to ms plural

12.890 "the lawn"

G reverts to ms no 'the'

12.1025 "drinking"

G proposes an ambiguous ms revision to 'adrinking'

12.1066 "smashall sweeney's"

G reverts to overwhelming ms caps

12.1326 "strung up on"

G reverts to ms 'in'

12.1360 "everywhere?"

G reverts bizarrely to ms period

12.1471 "sold by auction off in Morocco like slaves or cattles"

G reverts to ms no-'off' and singular cattle. but these errors seem too witty to be accidental. (sold off, auction off, off in Morocco)

12.1744 "that he"

G admits bafflement about this passage

Gabler postulates a bad typist on top of a baffling ms sequence, but some 'typist' innovations are distinctly Joycean. Gabler usually accepts the typist's caps.

13.24 "over him"

G reverts to awkward ms 'over to him'

13.32 "loaf of brown"

G incomprehensibly reverts to ms 'or'

13.106 "tenderness"

G suggests J misread his own writing as 'tendency' here, and it seems far more appropriate to me.

13.110 "novelette"

G blames no-cap on typist

13.131 "windows"

G accepts typist's singular

13.167 "at"

G reverts to overlooked-then-replaced 'over'

13.185 "lovers' meetings"

G blames the plural on a typist, but fails to fix the apostrophe to match!??

13.201 "Stoers'"

G sees an authorial revision to 'Stoer's' that I think is wrong (it's plural)

13.308 "any way"

I accept G's reversion to draft, overriding J's 'anyway'

13.329 "mother"

G thinks apostrophe-s was lost in margin

13.338 "was robed"

useful overlooked draft insertion

13.400 "all about"

happy 'all' found only in Little Review

13.498 "sing Tantum"

G imports draft 'the'

13.530 "baby"

G accepts ms 'babby'

13.608 "Billy Winks"

G rejects charming caps as typist's

13.621 "the veil round him"

I'm relocating 'round him' here (G just deletes it)

13.639 "treasures trove"

G reverts to (ambiguous) ms singular

13.670 "follow her"

G reverts to awful ms comma

13.675 "and genuflected"

I accept G's importing this from a draft

13.695 "tremor"

G reverts to unhappy ms 'tremour'

13.700 "knew"

G restores ms 'knew too'

13.719 "flying about"

G rejects happy 'about' as typist's

13.728 "back he"

G restores unneeded ms 'that'

13.740 "O so lovely! O so soft"

G reverts to ms 'lovely, O, soft' but we have to assume J proofed this climactic line carefully

13.776 "Wouldn't mind"

G restores 'I wouldn't' from ms, but this looks authorial to me

13.860 "then"

G accepts published 'there'

13.945 "my and"

pleading "e" G innovates 'my name and'

13.947 "Jemima"

G accepts ms 'Jemina' (4000 occurrences on web, vs 50000 for Jemima)

13.1021 "anything, rainbow"

G restores unneeded draft 'like rainbow'

13.1027 "oil of ether"

G reverts to plausible ms 'or'

13.1166 "lost long"

Kidd convincingly discredits G's 'last lonely' (though I'd prefer 'last long')

13.1193 "other?"

G reverts to ms period

13.1241 "does."

G overrides J to revert to q-mark

13.1283 "years dreams"

G restores unneeded 'of'

Gabler restores many happy revisions to the ms made apparently after the typescript.

14.1 The first three paragraphs are an editor's nightmare. Little inconsistencies abound in the 1922, and Gabler adds more. I'm taking an extreme view and eliminating all the inconsistencies, but otherwise following 1922.

14.20 "unilluminated"

I like 'inilluminated' better but G blames a typist so unless I hear that it's in the OED, I'll play it safe here

14.54 "hoving"

G restores this from ms (he says)

14.76 "twey"

G doesn't explain why he accepts 1937 'tway'...?

14.82 "welkin."

G blames the exclam on a typist, and I'll warily assent

14.82 "dread"

G reverts to ms 'drad' which I like but can't accept

14.125 "learning knight"

G imposes compound thruout on scantest evidence, pleading "e"

14.317 " attack: The"

G very unwisely imposes leading-dash style (anachronistic here)

14.506 "for a racinghorse"

G accepts ms revision to (lame-sounding but perhaps more timely?) 'about a racer'

14.532 "the"

a messy one, I'm just taking G's word it's not 'to'

14.563 "chickens"

G reverts to awkward ms singular

14.581 "about. An"

G reverts to very unhappy comma-no-cap

14.636 "up on"

G reverts to unrhythmic ms 'upon'

14.810 "chin?"

G rejects needed q-mark as typo!??

14.856 "teethed"

G reverts to ms 'toothed' (unhappy singular)

14.943 "usages"

G rejects happy plural as typist's

14.951 "officer"

a messy one, G goes with the clumsier 'obstetrician'

14.971 "perpetuation"

G rejects errata list as non-authorial???

14.980 "country stile"

G reverts to improbable ms compound

14.1012 "creep?"

G claims exclam

14.1129 "field: all"

G blames this happy, Joycean form on the typist

14.1245 "alleges"

G perversely restores ms 'alleged'

14.1390 "Word"

G rejects happy cap

14.1454 "Ratamplan Digidi Boum Boum"

G reverts to ms reading

14.1492 "pepper"

G pulls 'peppe' out of draft

[this episode was the first done with G's 3-vol in front of me, so it presents as new discoveries many topics assumed already (actually later) for the episodes above]

As I understand it, there are many small differences between the manuscript and all subsequent versions, and G's mostly-consistent policy was to override the dozens of times J let those subsequent changes stand, and revert to the ms version... usually without even noting the change in his footnotes!

But the later versions seem as good or better so often that I think it's perfectly fair to make these the editor's call in every instance, separately. (Either way had J's okay at some time.)

15.7 "slowly. Children."

G reverts to the ms's comma

15.10 "THE CALLS... THE ANSWERS"

G thinks the plurals are a typist's error, but I think J must have recognised the improvement

15.105 "music, not"

J's insertion lacked the comma

15.105 "odour"

I give this a slight esthetic edge over 'odours', so side with G

15.117 "bread and wine"

G blames a typist for this change from the ms's 'bread or wine'. The latter implies drunken incoherence where this is subtler.

15.126 "down turned in planes intersecting,"

J originally put a comma after turned, but I prefer this published version.

15.195 "hattrick"

G reverts to ms's two words, overriding J's specific instructions on "a3" (1st proof!?) [via Kidd]

15.229 "stepsaside"

J wrote 'stepaside' but this published version is clearly better.

15.243 "pursepocket"

J wrote 'watchfob, pursepoke' but after inserting 'pocketbookpocket' I think the revision was called-for

15.283 "widow Twankey's crinoline and bustle, blouse"

'blouse' needs a modifier, so I wonder at G's reconstruction here

15.325 [ellipses]

G restores J's irregular numbers of dots

15.399 "Walls have hears"

G rejects this entirely, but if it's a typo it's a felicitous one.

15.721 "von Bloom Pasha"

G mixes early 'Blum' back into later 'von Bloom' [Kidd]

15.753 "Leopold!"

G deletes a repetition of this name, and I accept that, esthetically.

15.812 "Arsewiper"

G blames the final 'r' on a typist, but it has a Joycean tang

15.1356 "Raleigh"

G restores ms typo [Kidd]

15.1402 "royal Dublin fusiliers"

G imposes caps for consistency with 15.4607 [Kidd]

15.1652 "mix."

G substitutes the more plausible 'nux'

15.2097 "Bah!"

at three points here G substitutes 'Ba' pleading "e" based solely on 15.114

15.2189 "Dave"

G guessed 'Dove' [Kidd]

15.2405 "whores, then"

if I read G right, J deleted whores and then restored it, and G reads this (improbably?) as deleting the comma

15.2492 "pendant"

J used pendent and pendant inconsistently, but I'll respect it here (overriding the published version)

15.2614 "MacChree"

G restores ms 'my Chree' blaming typist error okayed by J [Kidd]

15.2654 "Cardinal"

G reverts to ms lowercase

15.2672 "Hi-hi-hi-hi-his legs"

G reverts to ms's gurgling no-dashes

15.2736 "Tansy and pennyroyal."

G restores this, from ms I assume. But it may have been intentionally deleted.

15.3003 "Bert the"

J had an unneeded comma

15.3029 "Black Church"

G reverts to ms church

15.3046 "Larry Rhinoceros"

G reverts to ms's r

15.3227 "(In a dark"

G reverts (temptingly!) to ms's "in dark"

15.3238 "Ssh."

(also at 15.3283) G reverts to ms "Ssh!" but I prefer this slightly

15.3358 "and I..."

G reverts to very dubious ms period

15.3459 "Wait, Satan. You'll"

G reverts (??) to 'Wait. Satan, you'll'

15.3484 "hairs"

G blames the plural on a typist!??

15.3492 "your bully's cold spunk"

G makes a plausible argument for this over the (clumsier) published 'the cold spunk of your bully'

15.3513 "still a"

G very unwisely reverts to ms comma

15.3522 "have, that"

G very unwisely reverts to ms no-comma

15.3594 "Le distrait"

G reverts to ms 'The' (no italics)

15.3628 "nearer"

G reverts to ms 'near'

15.3836 "near the skin"

G overrides "a8" and reverts to ms 'next the skin' blaming typist deletion (and authorial memory lapse)

15.3909 "omelette"

G reverted to helpful-but-ms-only 'omlet'. most editions have 'omlette' [Kidd]

15.4039 "limply"

G reverts to ms 'lightly' but this is a very improbable typo (unless unreadable?)

15.4048 "shrinks"

G reverts to ms's tonguetwisting 'sinks'

15.4050 "fade, gold, rose,"

G reverts to ms 'fade gold rosy'

15.4060 "Balance!"

G imposes an extra syllable via accented é, pleading "e"

15.4122 "All wheel, whirl, waltz, twirl. Bloombella, Kittylynch, Florryzoe,"

G reverts to ms no-punctuation

15.4143 "On nags, hogs, bellhorses, Gadarene swine, Corny in coffin. Steel shark stone onehandled Nelson, two"

G reverts to ms no-punct incl 'coffin steel' (I prefer G's version, but can't accept it)

15.4176 "No."

G restores word from ms, maybe incorrectly?

15.4214 [deleted]

G admits he's guessing where 'His noncorrosive sublimate!' belongs, so much better to leave it out.

15.4308 "Who are you incog?"

G chooses the unlovely 'Who are. Incog!' over "a7" explaining: "Rosenbach clearly intends two syntactically unconnected elliptical exclamations. The subsequent authorial smoothing is the result of defective punctuation in the transmission."

15.4330 "follows"

G reverts to ms's ungrammatical 'follow'

15.4413 "Looks up in the sky."

G reverts to ms 'up to' but this seems an unlikely, Joycean typo.

15.4435 "but"

G restores ms's 'but but'

15.4471 "country, suppose"

G has a period and capital, for reasons I don't understand.

15.4541 "the body"

G reverts to ms 'body' (no 'the')

15.4555 "time as applied to His"

G overrides "a9" and reverts to ms 'time. As applied to Her'

15.4705 "petticoats"

G reverts to ms singular

15.4964 "Gazes unseeing"

G reverts to unhappy comma

16.18 "as, in"

G deflates a brilliant Joycean joke by relocating 'brushing' after 'as'

16.43 "happening to be returning the"

G imposes a dismal 'correction' to 'happened to be returning and the', pleading "e"

16.157 "or the next"

G reverts to bumbling ms 'or next'

16.191 "them, or where was, or did he buy?"

G reverts to 'them he wondered or where was or did he buy.'

16.262 "hazarded"

G reverts to unhappy ms 'hasarded'

16.296 "it?"

G restores unhappy ms comma, arguing "R's punctuation would seem an instance of immediate graphic expression of the undecidedness of the episode between spoken and written speech."

16.318 "Farabutto! Mortacci sui!"

G restores two extra lines not plausibly dropped in error

16.338 "a portion"

G perversely restores ms no-'a'

16.415 "D.B."

a messy one: J accepted typist's misreading as W.B. (J's Ds looked just like Ws.)

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)

16.436 "Boo!"

G psychotically reverts to ms 'Broo' overriding "aB"

16.443 "you, do you?"

G omits the last two (very happy) words without any comment!??

16.525 "cast"

G accepts 'caste'

16.573 "Chinese"

interestingly, G reverts to ms 'chinks'

16.594 "Mr Bloom"

G reverts to interesting ms 'Mr B.' (ditto at 16.618)

16.596 "not turning a hair,"

(J may well have deleted this intentionally)

16.606 "roughly"

(J may have deleted this intentionally)

16.616 "spirt"

I'll hesitantly accept G's reversion to obscure ms spelling

16.694 "longshoreman one"

G reverts to (boring) swapped order

16.778 "with a smile of unbelief"

G restores this from draft, but not copied by J

16.809 "puddle-- it clopped out of it when taken up--"

G apparently thinks J added the second 'it' as a copying error, and the typist supplied the dashes to compensate

16.815 "But oblige"

G reverts to odd 'But O, oblige'

16.867 "ice creamers"

G spoils the parallelism by imposing compound

16.871 "tuckin"

G reverts to ms compound, which I slightly prefer

16.899 "and the"

G restores (unhappy) dropped 'then' from draft

16.906 "the wreck of Daunt's rock"

G humorlessly restores draft 'off'

16.943 "corporation stones"

I warily accept G's restoration of 'stones' from the draft

16.948 "hard times"

G claims J wrote 'hard lines'???

16.962 "wrecks and wrecks"

G reverts to (pointless?) draft 'wrecks and wreckers'

16.996 "Navan"

I warily accept G's correction from 'Cavan'

16.1023 "every man"

G reverts to very unhappy ms compound

16.1049 "(Bloom)"

G reverts to ms '(B.)' also at 16.1094 and 1177

16.1065 "her until"

G spoils joke by imposing comma, overriding "a3", pleading only "e"!??

16.1094 "Mr Bloom"

B.

16.1103 "in the next house,"

I suspect J did delete this, but I like it okay (comma added)

16.1106 "Yes,"

maybe a cunning one: G rejects leading dash, supported by 'he said' in speech following.

16.1116 "-- They accuse-- remarked he audibly. He turned away from the others, who probably... and spoke nearer to, so as the others... in case they..."

G absurdly imagines J added two sets of ellipses to conform with the typist's innovation. I do accept G's paragraph (from ms?) as a solution to the doubled paragraph-dash

16.1124 "Because they are imbued with the proper spirit. They"

I warily accept G's restoration of this sentence

16.1138 "small smattering"

G may have a good (unstated) reason to drop 'small'???

16.1177 "Bloom"

G reverts to 'B'

16.1247 deleted: "Or a change of address anyway."

interesting, but I suspect J meant to drop it

16.1260 "Cornelius Kelleher"

G restores middle initial T

16.1277 "added for entire colts and fillies Mr"

G repunctuates, but Bloom's eye is just skipping

16.1281 deleted "Sceptre a shade heavier, 5 to 4 on Zinfandel, 20 to 1 Throwaway (off)."

G restores this from draft???

16.1285 " Braine"

G corrects to 'Braime' but we should assume Bloom is making reading errors

16.1337 "exterior"

maybe 'expression'

16.1354 "She loosened many a man's thighs."

interesting restoration

16.1368 "encouraging"

G reverts to unhappy 'encompassing'

16.1379 "fact that"

G rejects happy 'that'

16.1386 "Poser."

maybe deleted intentionally?

16.1423 deletion "it contained"

probably deleted intentionally

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'

16.1495 "Bloom"

G reverts to 'B'

16.1497 "leader's-- who... adultery-- (leader's)"

G reverts to humorless commas

16.1513 deletion "a silk one"

G restores from draft (if you include it, it should get commas)

16.1569 "father. But"

G reverts (disrespectfully) to no-punct

16.1569 "even were"

I'll accept G's restoration of 'even'

16.1622 "pillow. At... trivet. He"

G reverts to miserable no-punct-no-cap

16.1629 "where age was no bar"

G restores possible deletion from draft

16.1636 "XX"

G reverts to ms 'x'

16.1637 "gentle"

G restores possible deletion from draft

16.1640 "Achilles, your God was a jew, because"

G reverts to unhappy periods-and-caps

16.1646 "Do you like cocoa?"

G restores possible deletion from draft

16.1654 "packed with hydros and seaside theatres"

I'm wary of G's reconstruction here

16.1714 "around nimbly, considering frankly, at the same time apologetic, to"

G reverts to ms and draft 'around, nimbly considering, frankly at the same time apologetic to' arguing plausibly it better represents Bloom's gait

16.1715 "by the by, the"

G reverts annoyingly to 'by the bye, his'

16.1719 "Come."

G restores from happy draft

16.1747 "shade in"

G restores comma and destroys joke

16.1761 deletion "sing it"

G restores unneeded phrase from draft

16.1765 "Bloom"

G reverts to initial-only

16.1789 "foolish nervous"

G reverts to unhappy order-swap

16.1804 "handsome"

G restores from draft

16.1805 "insatiable"

1922 had 'indubitable'

17.98 "indication"

G corrects to indiction

17.99 "MXMIV"

G corrects to MCMIV

17.111 "of 1 CP"

G overrides "a3" to put this insertion back after the first candle

17.141 "(Richard Goulding)"

messy passage-- G moves the closing paren after Richard, pleading "e"

17.165 "filtre"

G rejects J's misspelling

17.752 "homilectic"

G corrects to homiletic

17.903 "Silly Milly"

G ignores J's request for cap S?

17.936 "such extemporisation?"

G overrides "a1" to restore 'an'

17.1202 "pelosity"

G corrects to pilosity

17.1472 "1 Cake Fry's Plain Chocolate 0.1.0"

historically wrong, G thinks J insisted

17.1476 "Balance 0.17.5"

G overrides J's "aE' pleading "e"

17.1479 "divestiture"

Kidd claims to prefer ms 'disvestiture' here

17.1491 "unguical"

G corrects to 'ungual'

17.1558 "nurserymen, agents"

I accept G's overriding "a3" to impose plurals, based on typo

17.1660 "1/6... 1/3"

1922 has 1/6th... 1/3rd

17.1708 "to the"

G overrides "p1E" reverting to ms 'to'

17.1761 "2/7ths"

G reverts to no-'ths'

17.1800 "boustrophedontic"

G corrects to boustrophedonic

17.1822 deletion "(erroneously)"

G restores redundancy from ms

17.1875 "Rudolph Virag"

G corrects to 'Rudolf' pleading "e"

17.1958 "it"

in three places G innovates 'departure' based on ms addition

17.2180 "As not so"

I accept G's overriding "a1" with 'not as' due to typo

17.3214 "fulfilled"

J wrote (happy) 'fullfilled'

G strips away many caps, apparently blaming them on a rogue typist.

(McAlmon is a possible reallife rogue.)

18.124 "father"

G reverts to plausible 'fathers' (possessive)

18.229 "u p up"

a messy one, G modifies ms 'U.p: up' to 'U p up' overriding J's 'up up' at "aB"

18.435 deletion "then"

G accepts unhappy despite being based on a typo

18.444 "kick"

messy-- G pleads "e:Dalton" in innovating 'kicked' to match 'made'

18.576 "Belladonna"

messy-- Kidd complains that J allowed a typist's cap here, but G just ignores it

18.601 "Photo bits"

no cap-B in 1926!?

18.617 "in old Madrid or Waiting"

G reverts to swapped order with 'and' overriding "aB"

18.619 "theyre"

G chooses "a3"s 'there' over 1932's 'theyre'

18.718 "Who"

unhappy cap in 1926

18.723 "pyannyer"

G overrides "a1" reverting to ms 'piannyer'

18.780 "black water"

messy-- G reverts to ms overriding "a1"s 'Blackwater' (ie, J forgetting what he meant?)

18.858 "paris"

cap in 1926, G says J tried to change

18.870 "16 carat"

G ignores this (1926) and opts for (cliched) '18 carrot'

18.939 "plaice"

G implies J tried to change this to 'place'

18.958 "me to"

G overrides "a3" reverting to 'me'

18.1333 "potent professor"

1922 has 'patent'

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