^TN1 'Sdense ! You spoof of visibility in a freakfog ! Of mixed sex cases among goats, hill cat and plain mousey, Bigamy Bob and and ^?sould Sin Shanock^?TN2 ! the (sociable) democrat,^TN3 The Blackfriars treacle plaster outrage be liddled! Therewith was released 48.05 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^TN4 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^TN5 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 At level 8 “sould Sin Shanoch” is uncertain: the three words begin with “s”, surely upper case for the latter two words; “sould” is a guess; “Sin” could be “Sid”; “Shanoch” could be “Shavoch”. That “and” is written twice there is no doubt.

³ 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.

⁴ Note that “button”, corrected on level 6 but that correction unattended to on level 7, appears correctly as “buttom” on level 8, suggesting some extradraft instruction.

⁵ “in”, wrong on levels 6 and 7, is correctly “is” at level 8, changed probably in some extradraft instruction.