![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Publisher Houyhnhnm Press said that although the changes were minor, they were "nonetheless crucial in that they facilitate a smooth reading of the book's allusive density and essential fabric". Joyce himself, reported to have said that he wrote the book "to keep the critics busy for 300 years", and that "the only demand I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works," would no doubt have been delighted by their lengthy efforts. To reach the text we had to follow him back, and it's a lot harder to go backwards than forwards." It extends out and out and out – what Joyce was doing was distilling in and in and in. There were 20,000 pages of manuscript, and beyond that 60 notebooks, and beyond that it extended out into thousands of different volumes. "The complexity of the texts and the complexity of the social situation meant it was very, very difficult indeed, but we stuck with it and we got there. "I never thought I'd see this day," said Rose. Poring over the tens of thousands of pages of notes, drafts, typescripts and proofs that make up, in Joyce's own words, his "litters from aloft, like a waast wizzard all of whirlwords", they have made 9,000 "minor yet crucial" amendments and corrections to the book, from misspellings to misplaced phrases, ruptured syntax and punctuation marks. Seventy years on, scholars Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon have reached the conclusion of 30 years of textual analysis. ![]()
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