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A NOTE ON THIS EDITION 
For this edition the text of James Joyce and the Making of ' Ulysses' has
been produced by photolithography from the 1934 British edition. It includes
a few corrections, mostly of simple typographical errors. The last line of
the German poem on page 13 has been corrected, in accordance with Frank Budgen's
expressed wishes., The quotations from Ulysses have been somewhat emended.
It has not been possible to alter the inverted commas which Budgen (or his
publisher) used to indicate quoted dialogue, where Joyce always used the
simple opening dash; nor have spellings and capitalization been made to conform
with the printed text of Ulysses. But punctuation has been emended, and missing
words restored, the guiding principle being that when read aloud the Joycean
passages should sound correct. 
 The book, written at a time when Ulysses had been much less carefully scrutinized
than it has been today, includes a few small errors. These have not been
altered, but the following should perhaps be mentioned: On pages 124 and
i 26 Budgen has the Mirus Bazaar at Sandymount, whereas it was held in Ballsbridge;
Almidano Artifoni does not take a tram, but misses it and has to walk 
(p. I 26); there are seventeen, not eighteen, sections between the appearance
of Conmee and that of the Viceroy (p. 126); Haines's assignation with Mulligan
(Oxen of the Sun) is for ten past eleven, not half past (p. 227); Murphy's
son is eighteen years old, not sixteen (p. 258); Alexander Thom was a printer
and publisher, not an auctioneer (p. 278). A slightly more substantial matter
arises from Budgen's treatment of Joyce's letter of 16 August 1921 about
Penelope, quoted on page 269. In the 1934 edition, Budgen, perhaps quoti'ng
from memory, altered the text of the letter (now published in full in Letters,
i. 169—70), and this has been left unchanged, except for the alteration
of ' glass' to ' class'. Readers may care to compare the passage quoted on
page 272 with the end of the actual letter, where the context makes clear
that Joyce's description refers to the episode, not to Molly herself, as
Budgen has it.