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| + | In 1933, Joyce hired a private secretary, Madame France Raphael, to transcribe his FW notebooks. In trying to decipher Joyce's handwriting (and speaking very little English), Raphael made a number of transcription errors, most of which Joyce corrected. | ||
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| + | However, in one case, Raphael rendered Joyce's handwritten "/\c on vibrating bed" as "/\ convibrating bed." Rather than correcting this error, Joyce adapted the serendipitous rendering as "convibrational." | ||
Latest revision as of 18:27, 18 September 2016
- congregational: i.e., the Four shared a bed
Commentary
In 1933, Joyce hired a private secretary, Madame France Raphael, to transcribe his FW notebooks. In trying to decipher Joyce's handwriting (and speaking very little English), Raphael made a number of transcription errors, most of which Joyce corrected.
However, in one case, Raphael rendered Joyce's handwritten "/\c on vibrating bed" as "/\ convibrating bed." Rather than correcting this error, Joyce adapted the serendipitous rendering as "convibrational."
