TN1 Under [2 <(> 2] rather 48.05 a [2 <)> 2] [2 <A> 2] cloud indeed ! Yet all [2 <of> 2] [2 <these> they who heard or redelivered 2] are now as much no more as were they not yet now or had they then not ever been. 48.1048.15 Of Hosty , 48.20quite a musical genius in a small way [2 and possessed A>the owner<A of a A>an exceedingly<A nice ear 2] , [2 <the end is unknown> no end is known 2] .
Textual Notes
1 Though the “The data” passage (FW: 57.16-61.28 [JJA: 45.138]) is first-drafted 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.