^TN1 'Sdense ! ^{[8+ A>}Corpo di baraggio !^{<A 8+]} You^TN2 spoof of visibility in a freakfog ^[8+ <! Of> , of^{TN3 8+]} mixed sex cases among goats, hill cat and plain mousey, Bigamy Bob and ^[8+ <and ^?sould Sin Shanock^?> his old Shanvocht ^8+] ! ^[8+ <the (sociable) democrat,>^{TN4 8+]} The Blackfriars treacle plaster outrage be liddled! Therewith was released ^{[8+ A>}in that kingsrich 48.05^B>kingsrick^<BTN5 of Humidia^{<A 8+]} a poisoning volume of cloud barrage indeed . Yet all they who heard or redelivered are now as much no more as be they not yet now or had they then notever been. Canbe in some future we shall presently here 48.1048.15 the zitherer of the past with his merrymen all, zimzim , zimzim . Of the persins sin this Eyrawyggla saga (which is from tubb to buttom all falsetissues , antilibellous and nonactionable and this applies to its whole wholume ) of Osti , 48.20quite a musical genius in a small way and the owner of an exceedingly niced ear , with tenorist voice to match, no one end is known .

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.

² That “You” is clearly capitalized and double underlined on level 8+, but lower case on level 9, suggests instruction: hard to see how a typesetter could miss it.

³ There is a comma after “freakfog” at level 8+, which is not visible in the Archive reproduction because occluded by the British Museum gluestrip.

⁴ The phrase “the (sociable) democrat,” at level 8, is indexed in the left margin to precede the “the Blackfriars . . .” overlay, which itself however is not indexed to follow what is at that point “Shanoch!” in the bottom margin below (BL 47475—22v; JJA: 45.290a). “[T]he (sociable) democrat” is not crossed out, and indeed it is not carried forward. Since the lower case “t” of “the Blackfriars” is copied upper case on level 8+, so that it can begin a sentence after “Shanoch!”, I think a conscious decision was made to omit “the (sociable) democrat,” rather than that it was missed.

⁵ The final letter in “kingsrich” as drafted on level 8+ seems clearly to have been “h”—it is heavily scored over and it is not perfectly clear that it is changed to “k”, but it was thus read by level 9.