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Joyce nodding?

[this is somewhat preliminary! anyone who feels like further digesting the literature [qv] on this, I'll give full credit.]

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

Here, for contemplation, are instances of Joyce possibly making mistakes in Ulysses. Most are either from Gifford or Gabler/Kidd or Rose or Robert Martin Adams [Senn]. New: [H&K;] = Hart & Knuth's "Topographical Guide to JJ's U"

Note how many are from Ithaca-- Bloom (or the narrator) nodding?

Rose argues: "In May 1922, Joyce wrote to Harriet Weaver: 'In a second edition the mistakes must be corrected. Some of the blunders and omissions which disfigure Ithaca especially are lamentable.'" [cite]

However, Rose fails to acknowledge that 67 of these were itemised by Joyce, and corrected in late 1922. So it's safe to assume he'd proofed it pretty carefully by that point! Most of these are keying-errors like transposed letters, some are dropped words. But Joyce also corrects the date of Mrs Sinico's funeral (from 10 Oct to 17 Oct) and the 'BALANCE' line in Bloom's budget (from 0.16.6 to 0.17.5).

I only see one correction to capitalisation, from Penelope (may to May), and one where two words are (re?)joined into a compound (white polled to whitepolled). There are many changes in commas-- insert, delete, and exchange for fullstop-- and a few to colons and dashes.

cf also: Homer nodding.

And in ch2 most of Deasy's facts are wrong, also Lenehan's account of the horserace in ch14.

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Line-numbers in bold are the likeliest candidates for intentional parts of a pattern.

1.181 "looking towards the blunt cape of Bray Head that lay on the water like the snout of a sleeping whale."

not remotely visible, if I read the maps right, so probably a game, not Joyce's error?
[pic1] = what they really saw;
[pic2] = sleeping-whale-like Bray

1.316 "barbacans"

this spelling was modernised to 'barbicans' in the 1932 edition, maybe by Joyce himself

1.628 "ferule"

ferrule

3.23 "Acatalectic"

A catalectic [Gabler believes Joyce insisted on the incorrect 'acatalectic' designation, but someone else kept changing it to the correct 'catalectic'] [more]

3.161 "mis"

good French demands the feminine 'mise' but Senn points out that "La vie de Jésus by Léo Taxil (at least the copy available in Zürich) uses the (wrong) French masculine or indeterminate form 'mis'" cite: [password]

3.181 "1904"

1903 (factually). the drafts show '1902' changed ambiguously to 1904, which Gabler accepts because of Gabler's own theory that the Paris trip has been redated to 1904 in the Ulysses timescheme. [JJQ17]

4.43 "this drouth"

not factual per Gifford

4.46 "licking"

licked (Rose)

4.76 "threshhold"

threshold

4.78 "seventyfive"

misled by Thom's, too far northwest

4.108 "n.g. as position"

actually quite successful [H&K;]

4.149 "Woods his name is."

R Woods at #8 was 'Rosanna' (female) [rma]

4.183 "disc"

Kidd counts six each of 'disc' and 'disk'

4.191 "Agendath Netaim"

Agudath Netaim

4.205 "Mastiansky"

Thom's typo for Masliansky [Kidd]

4.236 "twentyeight"

factually 17

4.419 "He would be eleven now if he had lived."

this disagrees with the dubious 17.2271 date "29 December 1893" but agrees with 18.1305

4.489 "brillantined"

this spelling was de-Italianised to 'brilliantined' in the 1932 edition, maybe by Joyce himself

5.32 "lobbing about"

Rose 'corrects' this to 'lolling about' (also 8.30)

5.79 "the letter the letter"

Gabler restores this doubtful draft version

6.39 "past Watery lane"

too far north for the time of day? [more]

6.51 "aunt Sally"

SD calls her aunt Sara at 3.62

6.186 "Elster Grimes"

Elster-Grime [Kidd]

6.251 "Of the tribe of Reuben"

Reuben J Dodd was a moneylender but not Jewish

6.469 "the last house"

the next-to-last [H&K;]

6.537 "Artane"

(also 10.3) the O'Brien Institute is actually next door in Donnycarney [H&K;]

6.641 "O'Connell circle"

the circle is farther north than the monument [H&K;]

6.742 "Ballsbridge"

Keyes had probably already moved from this address [H&K;]

7.53 "Mario the tenor"

retired when LB was 5yo [rma]

7.92 "Tinnahinch... Cuprani"

Tinnehinch... Caprani

7.719 "...mentreche"

G 'corrects' this to 'Mentre che' overriding "a1" and "a2"

7.327 "wait"

waits (Rose)

7.342 "Wetherup"

Weatherup [Kidd] [Kidd]

7.632 "eightyone"

1882

7.688 "Pyatt"

Pyat [Kidd]

7.757 "in the Vatican"

in Vincoli [rma]

7.881 "Miles of ears of porches"

Rose 'corrects' this to "Miles of porches of ears"

8.17 "Torry"

Torrey [Kidd]

8.27 "Butler's"

not on the corner, misled by Thom's

8.142 "85 Dame street"

27-30 Dame Street (cf 17.1785) [H&K;]

8.274 "Luke Doyle's"

moved away in 1883, died long before 1887 [H&K;]

8.338 "Coates's"

Coats's [Kidd]

8.491 "Kerwan's"

Kerwin [Kidd]

8.543 "etherial"

ethereal. (also 11.748 and 11.835, correct twice in ch15) [Kidd]

8.1054 "in the window"

above eye level, not a show-window [H&K;]

8.1069 "Gray's"

not at corner (Thom's misleading) [H&K;]

8.1162 "Mirus bazaar"

really opened 31 May

9.132 "Nine lives"

eight

9.290 "rumour"

conscious anachronism (published by May) changed from 'has gathered'

9.631 "conjugial"

normally 'conjugal' (also 14.849) but Senn notes "Joyce got it from a book by Swedenborg which contrasts 'Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love' with the 'Pleasures of Insanity Concerning Scortatory Love'" cite: [password]

9.939 "Autontimeroumenos"

Autotimoroumenos

9.967 "Dineen"

Dinneen [Kidd]

9.1073 "Bleibtreu"

1907 anachronism [Bibliofind]

9.1130 "plumbers' hall"

renovations were just beginning so they wouldn't have seen much (it opened in December)

10.228 "MacConnell's corner"

not on the corner [H&K;]

10.504 "the Dolphin"

really further down Essex [H&K;]

10.831 "Clohissey's"

Clohisey's [Kidd]

10.850 "Peter"

Pater

10.884 "Reddy and Daughter's"

apparently 1908 anachronism (just "Reddy's" in 1904) [H&K;]

10.1107 "Lewis"

Louis [Kidd]

10.1110 "Metropolitan Hall"

Merrion Hall

10.1126 "Poddle"

moved by Joyce from Wellington to Wood quay [H&K;]

10.1146 "Fitzsimons"

Fitzsimmons [Kidd]

10.1148 "Corbet"

Corbett [Kidd]

10.1196 "Devan's"

Devin's [Kidd on Rose]

10.1217 "Dame gate"

long gone by 1904 [H&K;]

10.1242 "Yorkshire girl"

anachronism? (not composed until 1920 I think)

10.1258 "Green"

Greene [Kidd]

10.1260 "Adderly"

Adderley [Kidd]

10.1263 "viceconsulate"

may have moved by June 1904 [H&K;]

10.1263 "deep in Leinster street"

beyond Leinster in Lincoln Place [H&K;]

10.1273 "the Royal Canal bridge"

Grand Canal

10.1277 "Landsdowne"

Lansdowne [Kidd on Rose&Gabler;]

11.9 "Idolores"

the lyric is really 'my Dolores' [ZB]

11.86 "Moulang's... Wine's... Carroll's"

travelling east-to-west the actual sequence should be Wine's - Moulang's - Carroll's [H&K;]

11.383 "Egypt"

the lyric is really 'Eden'

11.496 "Flora's"

the lyric is really 'to floral lips' [ZB]

11.696 "Singing wrong words"

Simon's lyrics are correct this time [ZB]

11.899 "Dublin"

Rose 'corrects' this to "City"

11.998 "griped"

Rose 'corrects' this to "gripped"

11.1153 "castagnettes"

spelling inconsistent with 15.2609 and 18.1596 [Kidd]

12.71 "gunnard"

gurnard [Kidd]

12.176 "Conn of hundred battles... the ardri Malachi"

Conn of the Hundred battles... the Árd Rí Malachi

12.228 "Playwood... Whitehall lane... Carr"

Haywood... Whitehorse Lane... Cann

12.265 "Bi i dho husht"

Bi I do thost

12.355 "Having requested a quart of buttermilk this was brought"

Rose 'corrects' this to "He requested a quart of buttermilk and this was brought"

12.602 "the eunuch Catalani"

Angelica Catalani was a female soprano [rma]

12.937 "F.T."

T.F.[Kidd]

12.1455 "Mapas"

Malpas in Thom's, but Mapas probably correct [H&K;]

12.1515 "the Alaki of Abeakuta"

the Alake of Abeokuta

12.1537 "broadleaved"

broadleafed

12.1590 "Blackburn"

Blackburne [Kidd]

12.1785 "like a leprechaun"

Rose 'corrects' this to "like leprechauns"

12.1832 "Bograghs"

Boggeraghs

13.225 "Ann's"

Anne's [Kidd]

13.399 "coursing"

Rose 'corrects' this to "coursed"

13.720 "on account of being white"

blue at 13.180

14.221 "Arbraccan"

Ardbraccan [Kidd] [Rose&Kidd;]

14.474 "Patk."

the characteristic abbreviations of Pepys's style were actually due to a later editor (Pepys himself wrote in a shorthand that was all abbreviations).

14.654 "to buy a colour or a cornetcy"

Janusko points out that Joyce originally wrote this as applying to Seymour (cf 1.695) so it lost its sense when Bannon was substituted (but it may have gained the disguised sense of the correct 'condom') [more]

14.971 "perpetration"

perpetuation

14.1055 "baisemoins"

baisemains

14.1148 "Periplepomenos"

Periplipomenes?

14.1235 "Culpepper"

Culpeper [Kidd]

14.1442 "Nevil's"

Neville's [Kidd]

14.1513 "O, cheese it!"

Dent has deduced that Joyce relied on a mistaken dictionary definition, and intended this to mean 'be quiet', not 'run away'

14.1537 "Namby Amby"

Janusko points out that Joyce had revised Bannon's first name from Ambrose to Alec, but left this vestige {JJQ]

15.249 "elder in Zion"

anachronistic allusion to Protocols of 1905

15.587 "Derwan's"

Kirwan's (also 15.1547)

15.637 "Then too far"

if he went one stop too far on the train, how did he get back so quickly?

15.645 "Truelock's"

Trulock's [Kidd]

15.700 "Harold's cross bridge"

Gabler respects Joyce omission of the capital (so who am I to fix it?)

15.991 "W.13"

W.15, cf 4.199, 17.1700

15.1063 "chukkar"

chukker? [Gabler]

15.1623 "Ghimel... Hagadah Tephilim... Hanukah Roschaschana Beni Brith... Mazzoth Askenazim... Talith"

Gimel... Haggadah Tephillin... Hanukkah Rosh Hashana B'nai B'rith... Matzoth Ashkenazim... Tallith

15.1652 "mix."

probably misread notes for 'nux' (vomica)

15.1789 "Hypsospadia"

Hypospadias [Gabler]

15.1859 "Ostrolopsky"

Ostropolsky [Kidd]

15.2084 "catterpillar"

caterpillar [Kidd]

15.2088 "Coela enarrant"

Coeli

15.2261 "ollave"

'ollav' at 9.30 [Kidd]

15.2262 "Mananaun"

Mananaan. (also 15.2267) fixed in 1932

15.2320 "coiffeuse white"

Kitty's hair is henna-red at 15.2060, and coiffeuse means hairdresser not hair!??

15.2492 "pendant"

elsewhere pendent (except when referring to pendant-shape? 15.2748, 17.1525) [Kidd]

15.2518 "Mooney's en ville, Mooney's sur mer"

French italicised at 11.264 [Kidd]

15.2806/14 "Kellet's... Mansfield's"

Kellett's... Manfield's

15.3030 "Miss Dunn"

maybe Miss Dunne of 10.368 [H&K;]

15.3160 "mocassins"

in OED, but usually moccasins

15.3221 "M. Shulomowitz... M. Moisel, J. Citron... P. Mastiansky, the reverend Leopold Abramovitz, chazen"

I. M. Shmulowitz... N. Moisel, I. Citron... J. Masliansky, the Reverend A.L. Abramovitz, chazan

Kidd accuses Rose of cribbing from Gifford here [Kidd]

15.3245 "coster picnicmakers"

Rose 'corrects' this to "costermongers, picnicmakers"

15.3378 "roteatingly"

rotatingly [Kidd]

15.3542 "Florrie"

everywhere else 'Florry'

15.3838 "Tunny's"

Tunney's, in ch10 etc

15.3840 "chivvying"

'chivying' at 9.161 [Kidd]

15.4016 "lights"

anachronism, relocated from Paris 1920, see Budgen

15.4042 "calisthenics"

callisthenics [Kidd]

15.4042 "Legget"

Leggett [Kidd]

15.4043 "Levinstone's"

Levenston's, cf 8.1139 [Kidd]

15.4123 "jujuby"

elsewhere jujube [Kidd]

15.4342 "red Murray"

elsewhere 'Red'

15.4453 "Massachussets"

(heh!)

15.4539 "Mogg"

Hogg [Kidd]

15.4748 "prone"

(also 15.4887) Nabokov liked to cite this as a Joycean lapse, but cf Circe notesheets: "Head front human, back animal"

16.168 "Winetavern street"

Lower Bridge street [H&K;]

16.463 "pomilooy"

pomilyou?

16.509 "five and six"

two and six

16.608 "eightyone"

1882

16.996 "Cavan"

Navan

16.1106 "Yes,"

maybe a cunning one: Gabler rejects 1922's leading dash, supported by 'he said' in speech following.

16.1150 "pro. tem."

Dalton and Gabler delete the first period

16.1243 "Capt. Marshall's dark horse"

Lord Bradford [rma]

16.1277 "3000"

300

16.1278 "Thrale"

Theale

16.1472 "fell"

Rose has retracted his 'correcting' this to "fallen". Senn: [password]

16.1583 "Foster"

Forster [Kidd]

16.1884 "brücken"

brechen? see Senn: [password]

17.41 "perceived by both"

they were seven miles apart, and the cloud was probably less than a mile high [info] so when one was in shadow the other would see the cloud low on the horizon if at all

17.98 "Roman indication"

Roman indiction [Gabler says late-Jan-1921 insertion, with no chance to fix]

17.99 "MXMIV"

MCMIV [Gabler says late-Jan-1921 insertion, with no chance to fix]

17.139 "thirteen Fitzgibbon"

actually 14

17.143 "twelve North Richmond"

Ellmann says 17, apparently mistaking a different John Joyce, Costello says 13

17.146 "16 Stephen's Green"

should be 84A-87

17.165 "acqueduct"

J's characteristic misspelling corrected before pub (also elsewhere)

17.165 "filtre"

filter ['filtre' is not a word, per Gabler]

17.171 "drouth"

not factual, cf 4.43

17.187 "Sundam"

Sunda

Rose: "Fleshing out Bloom's thought, Joyce consulted notes copied from a reference book. He evidently made a mistake in copying, confusing two entries, because (a) the Sunda Trench is in the Indian Ocean, and (b) the Marianne Trench, the deepest known, is in the Pacific. An editor interested in getting placenames right has two choices: emend "Sundam" to "Sunda" and "Pacific" to "Indian Ocean"; or, more in keeping with the spirit of the passage, follow the Reader's Edition and emend "Sundam" to "Marianne."" [Rose] [Kidd]

17.188 "8000 fathoms"

Sunda is 3158 fathoms

17.232 "thirteen hours previously"

fifteen

17.270 "72 thermal units"

162

17.314 "Mr Bloom's"

Mrs Bloom's

17.330 "14 Duke street"

21 Duke street

17.408 "Bollopedoom"

missing an L

17.409 "Old Ollebo, M. P."

missing an O

17.422 "1893"

1897

17.424 "Greenleaf Whittier"

Greenleaf Withers

17.429 "1820"

1819

17.457 "714... 83,300... 81,396 B.C."

762... 20,230... 17,158 B.C.

17.482 "54 Prussia street"

probably Thom's typo for 55 [H&K;]

17.591 "18 Talbot"

104 Talbot

17.723 "Mendoza"

Rose thinks J omitted 'Daniel' from defective mnemotechnic

17.727 "suil, suil, suil arun, suil go siocair agus suil go cuin"

siúl, siúl, a rún, siúl go socair agus siúl go ciúin

17.752 "homilectic"

homiletic

17.762 "irreducible"

irreductible [Kidd]

17.790 "T. Salmon"

G. Salmon (but cf 'Tinned Salmon' at 15.4344) also Senn: [password]

17.849 "sonambulism"

J's characteristic misspelling corrected before pub (several occurrences)

17.860 "in Holles street and in Ontario terrace, his daughter Millicent (Milly) at the ages of 6 and 8 years"

implying 1895-96 and 1897-98, not reconcilable [more]

17.921 "27th"

1893, Milly about 4yo

17.936 "prolungation"

prolongation

17.948 "14 October"

November in Dubliners

17.968 "10 Kildare"

maybe 9 [H&K;] (less than 10)

17.1043 "lattiginous"

not a word [Gabler]

17.1046 "10 lightyears"

8.6

17.1046 "57,000,000,000,000 miles"

if calculating from ten, should be: 58,590...

17.1050 "100"

more like 10,000, by the estimates of the time

17.1061 "trillions of billions of millions"

10 to the 27th is about 1500 moles [cite] so if we're talking iron atoms, one trillion billion million would weigh close to 20 pounds

17.1074 "the 9th power of the 9th power of 9"

the 9-to-the-9th power of 9 [info] via Hatzipolakis

17.1087 "19 tons"

implies 18 square feet of skin, a reasonable number [Cecil]

17.1108 "interdependant... independant"

J's characteristic misspelling corrected before pub

17.1110 "Le Verrier"

Leverrier [Kidd]

17.1129 "constellation of Auriga some years after"

Jan-March 1892

17.1135 "persistance"

persistence

17.1176 "16 Aungier street"

Thom's error for 17 [H&K;]

17.1202 "pelosity"

pilosity

17.1261 "Kimmage"

Dolphin's Barn at 8.274 [H&K;]

17.1355 "ressembled"

J's characteristic misspelling corrected before pub

17.1374 "Three Trips"

Three Visits

17.1406 "Wicklow"

Wexford

17.1441 "sixth pectoral vertebrae"

rib (or vertebra) [Gabler]

17.1448 "2 weeks and 3 days"

three and four

17.1458ff [budget]

Rose 'corrects' this with added items for 'Tram', 'Mrs Cohen', and 'Coffee and bun'. [Kidd]

17.1472 "Chocolate 0-1-0"

more likely 0-0-1 [Gabler says transmission error]

17.1476 "Balance 0-17-5"

0-16-6? [Gabler says the larger figure was an attempt to fix the transmission error, but would require he still have some pennies, disallowed at 16.1698]

17.1491 "unguical"

unguial

17.1523 "Brittanica"

J's characteristic misspelling corrected 1932

17.1654 "2 February"

1 Feb

17.1681 "1866"

1865

17.1707 "4,386,035"

4,458,775

17.1750 "6 figures"

more like nine

17.1785 "89, 90 and 91 Dame Street"

see 8.142 above [H&K;]

17.1800 "boustrophedontic"

boustrophedonic [Kidd]

17.1801 "/Y. IM"

/MI.Y

17.1817 "chest 28 in and 29 1/2 in, biceps 9 in and 10 in, forearm 8 1/2 in and 9 in, thigh 10 in and 12 in, calf 11 in and 12 in"

improbably small

17.1869 "Rudolph"

Rudolf

17.1877 "1st and 2nd"

2nd and 1st

17.1977 "Brigid's elm in Kildare"

oak

17.1984 "5 Dame Street"

(also 17.2075) Thom's error for 43 Dame Street [H&K;]

17.1987 "no human"

Anna Edson Taylor, 24 Oct 1901

17.2055 "82 Tyrone"

contradicts 15.1287 [H&K;]

17.2104 "21, 22, 23 Moore street"

16A South City Market (Joyce confused two Prices) [H&K;]

17.2276 "1870"

may be 1871

17.2281 "1893"

uncertain

17.2282 "5 months and 18 days"

6 months and 19 days

17.2308 "westward"

eastward

18.117 "his eyes were red"

Molly was supposedly with Mulvey in May 1886 (18.781) and probably first met Bloom in May 1887 (14.1362), so she shouldn't have seen his eyes when Rudolph died in June 1886 (though she might have heard about it from another?)... unless Rudolph really died in 1887??? [more]

18.400 "La Roque"

San Roque [rma]

18.500 "year I was born"

1859 and 1876, not 1870 or 1871

18.689 "Groves"

elsewhere Grove

18.790 "firtree cove"

misread notes for Fig-Tree Cave

18.870 "Gardner going to south Africa"

Joyce has transferred Nora's pre-marriage memories to Molly, puting this relationship in the 11th year of their marriage

18.1305 "I was in mourning thats 11 years ago now yes hed be 11"

this disagrees with the dubious 17.2271 date "29 December 1893" but agrees with 4.419

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