Next, Joyce makes a new fair copy of this section and adds a title page with a flourishing "Opening and Closing Pages of Part II, Section II, Fragment of Work in Progress, James Joyce, Hotel Elite, Zurich". Joyce stayed there from 20 September 1934 till 1 February 1935 (Danis Rose, Textual Diaries), but he omits the phrase as he copies the typescript. And this is not the only phrase he misses. 

This page has been one of the most difficult for Joyce to write. It grew very slowly, as he worked hard to join the sections and make fluent transitions. Here Joyce even stopped copying the typescript in mid-sentence, because he wasn't happy with the way it ended. The last words of the fair copy are "Number thirtytwo west eleventh streak looks on to the" and then nothing. This phrase he already had changed while copying. The typescript contains a couple of open spaces in it, left by Joyce to fill in later. Joyce is so unsatisfied with the ending that he doesn't even bother to copy the last page of the typescript, which conmtains an additional six lines of text. Part of it he later does reuse on the bottom of the page (the "Dagobert"-sentence), but the first part is irretrievably lost. It goes, after "Eleven hundred and thirty two is seeing the and", turn over (JJA52, p.48): "two plies sixteen plus twice femm hondered hug treedivels are wetnessing the " No full stop after the space left by Joyce to fill in later. This already shows how he was struggling with the text. 

The page grew so slowly that the Archives divide it into three subsections, 3A (260-274.13), 3B (274.13-274.27) and 3C (274.27-275.02). On 275.02 a new section starts, the abortive "Scribbledehobble"-section, which eventually got recycled throughout the chapter in the form of marginal notes and footnotes, plus some sentences that were taken over, or meant to be taken over, as the beginning of the next section. But there other things went wrong. 

Robbert-Jan Henkes, 11 April 2001