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[ pages 551-552 ]Notes795COMPOSITIONPUBLICATION1926In April Shaun abed, Part II (pp. 219-590)was put aside as 'finished,' after severalmonths of intensive revision.In the summer Joyce wrote 'a piece of thestudies' called 'The Triangle,' later 'TheMuddest Thick That Was Ever HeardDump.' This eventually became the middlepart of II.ii (pp. 282-304).In the autumn Joyce drafted the openingepisode, I.i (pp. 3-29).In 1927 Joyce was revising Part I (pp. 3-216) for publication in transition.In the summer he composed I.vi (pp. 126-68) as a connective episode between 'TheHen' and 'Shem the Penman.''Opening Pages of a Work in Progress,'transition No. 1 (April), 9-30 (FW I.i).'Continuation of a Work in Progress,' transitionNo. 2 (May), 94-107 (FW I.ii).transition No. 3 (June), 32-50 (FW I.iii).transition No. 4 (July), 46-65 )FW I.iv).transition No. 5 (Aug.), 15-31 (FW I.v).transition No. 6 (Sept.), 87-106 f. (FWI.vi).transition No. 7 (Oct.), 34-56 (FW I.vii).transition No. 8 (Nov.), 17-35 (FW I.viii).In the early months Joyce revised Shaunabc (pp. 403-55) for publication in transition.In the spring he re-worked Anna Livia forpublication in book form.Trouble with his eyes prevented Joyce fromwriting during most of the latter half of1928.transition No. 11 (Feb.), 7-18 (FW, 282-3°4).transition No. 12 (March), 7-27 (FW III.I,196-216).transition No. 13 (Summer), 5-32 (FWIll.ii).Anna Livia Plurabelle (New York, CrosbyGaige, Oct.) (FW I.viii, 196-216).1929Joyce began to revise his 'fables,' 'The transition No. 15 (Feb.), 195-238 (FWMookse and the Gripes' (pp. 152-9), 'The Ill.iii)Muddest Thick That Was Ever Heard