A Catechism for the 'Ulysses' Repair Kit (original) (raw)

1990, James Joyce Literary Supplement

Caesar non supra grammaticos. Grammatici non supra poetas. What parallel courses did Gaskell & Hart pursue repairing? Commencing united, on the camino real, as advisors to ULYSSES: A Critical and Synoptic Edition (1984, annus mira bilis), they resigned in protest but rejoined in reluctance: they suffered the eclectic artifact to emerge to universal acclaim, their endorsement & cachet on the titlepage in memoriam: they did not disclose their previous recusal or residual objections to the theories & praxes of the Editor, H. W. Gabier: as the faults of the nominal Corrected Text (1986) were communicated globally, they refused publica tion of the inflamed epistulae interrelative the Editor & Estate. Approaching, dispassionate, the notorious text & its succès de scandale, they suddenly tender 483 post mortem repairs to Gabler's Ulysses: the mot juste & obvious corri genda being rarer than the myriad errors correctable. On what did the duumvirate not meditate during their itinerary? They restrict their Repair Kit to the deplorable verbal muta tions, ignoring sine rectificatione Gabler's miscalibrations in

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