^TN1 48.05 A cloud of witnesses indeed ! Yet all these are as much now no more as were they ^›now^‹ not yet or had they then not ever been. 48.1048.15 Of Hosty , 48.20quite a musical genius in small way , the end is unknown .

Textual Notes

¹ Though the "The data" passage (FW: 57.16-61.28 [JJA: 45.138]) is written first, Joyce must have decided almost at once to precede it with the "cloud of witnesses" passage (FW: 48-50.32 [JJA 45: 137]), to which he then adds the "well-authenticated fact" passage (FW: 50.35-56.19 [JJA 45: 140, 142-3]) as a long overlay addition to level 1. At level 2 Joyce brings "Under rather a cloud . . . " to the margin, as he usually did when copying (or having typed) a new unit of the book (as do also the typescript at levels 3 and 5 and the fair copy at level 4). At this point, then, I think he intended chapter 3 to begin where in fact it does.