Let it stand …

… Restoring James Joyce’s book of the night | TLS. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Joyce’s narrative was certainly liable to impulsive and whimsical changes. Once when he was dictating to Samuel Beckett, then his secretary, someone knocked at the door and Joyce said, “Come in”. Beckett duly wrote down “Come in” and when Joyce saw it he said, “Let it stand”. On another occasion, when a printer’s error was pointed out he said, “Leave it. It sounds better that way than the way I wrote it”. So can the editors here be sure that Joyce did not himself spot certain “errors” in the published book and simply decide to let them stand?