…message all by themselves. So my question has to do with: is there some sense of the re emergence or the in the Joyce sense here comes everybody the democratization of that ability in future culture? Yes well I think so. I think that the way these…

…that kind of sensitivity to the depth of language and to the presence of the past in the present in a word is what Joyce is trying to do in Finnegan's wake, and that's why, if you read it carefully, you feel many historical layers of meaning in the…

…dimensional space and of what we call reality and this is why I often mention Finnegan's wake in my lectures because Joyce Understood this he understood that every moment is caused by everything that happened in the past and everything that happened in…

…years: to realize the alchemical nature of humanity and being and have everything fused into a supernuminous concrescence. That is time Joyce said all space in a nutshell you know all time bound into a lenticular vehicle which is both everyone's and mine…

…and then you're going to find out why it all makes sense, and that the trans historical dimension, that's it and that that's what Joyce meant when he said: if you want to be Phoenix, come and be part that all the anxiety that what we are really trying…

…this ultimate compression is, the scale, what it means. I mean, like, one way I imagine it, and that's why I love to quote Joyce about man becomes dirigible. I imagine it as the day when your mind becomes your home. You know, and all over the world,…

…on is the archaic period which precedes human history. And so cubism and the things that were done for literature by Joyce and Pound. And the glorification of barbarism and the recovery of the unconscious. First, the sexual nature of the unconscious through…

…compare to Gravity's. Rainbow novella, crying lot 49? Well, crying of lot 49 is a pretty minor piece. Gravity's rainbow, you know, Joyce said of Ulysses, he said it was his daybook and that Finnegan's wake was the night book. I would say Gravity's Rainbow…

…is somewhat hard to understand, but rich enough to pursue. It's this idea. And now I'm going to use James Joyce's classic example. Joyce wrote a book called Ulysses. Ulysses is a book about a man who rises on a morning, a bright morning day in June,…

…he gets his wallet and heads out into Dublin to score some kidneys to bring back. And he has all these adventures. But Joyce understood that this man on this day was also Ulysses, with his brave component of man, journeying to the end of the…

…on is the archaic period which precedes human history. And so cubism and the things that were done for literature by Joyce and pound. And the glorification of barbarism and the recovery of the unconscious. First the sexual nature of the unconscious through…

…will see that the city of Belem in Brazil, the city of. Of Bethlehem. Is situated in the delta of the Amazon. Well, I'm Joyce scholar and river freak enough to know that all rivers are female. And if you're too dense to know that, certainly the Amazon…

…the way I've always gotten at it. I figure that's the way the really smart money gets at it. The. The Melville, the Joyce. These voices that you find are somehow. Channeling closer to that, mate. From a position closer to that matrix. Yeah, or whatever.…

…brook. I used to have an english teacher who began each class by saying, I'll brook no babbling. Must have had the Joyce meme. Well, these things are very suggestive and very important to the larger interpretation of all this stuff, which I'm trying to…

…is now happening on a mass cultural level. For us, we to be who we want to be, we have to leave the planet. As Joyce says in Finnegan's wake up nient prospector, you sprout all your worth and woof your wings. Then can you say that all of the higher…

…is somewhat hard to understand, but rich enough to pursue. It's this idea. And now I'm going to use James Joyce's classic example. Joyce wrote a book called Ulysses. Ulysses is a book about a man who rises on a morning, a bright morning day in June,…

…he gets his wallet and heads out into Dublin to score some kidneys to bring back and he has all these adventures. But Joyce understood that this man on this day was also Ulysses, with his brave component of man, journeying to the end of the…

…us to evolve. To me, well, it seems clear that Terrence was really onto something back then, so let's join him now. I wondered. Joyce says, history is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. He could have said, history is a nightmare from which I…

…try. Do you think that was chosen and pivotal, or is there some kernel of truth to be explored there? Well, he didn't. Joyce put these words into the mouth of Stephen Dedalus, who said, history is the nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, showing…

…these words into the mouth of Stephen Dedalus, who said, history is the nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, showing that Joyce could write because he didn't put the participle where it would dangle. But this was in Ulysses. I think Joyce came to…

…awaken, showing that Joyce could write because he didn't put the participle where it would dangle. But this was in Ulysses. I think Joyce came to terms with all this ten years later in the wake. I mean, the wake I'm now speaking of. Finnegan's wake was…

…Canada, he really seemed to spawn no highly visible successors, was a unique personality and breakthrough, much in the same way that Joyce was a unique personality and spawned very few imitators. And the irony of all this is that McLuhan did his journeyman…

…his journeyman work before he burst onto the world stage as this mysterious savant of media. He did his work as a Joyce Scholar. That's what he was. Literary critic, Joyce Scholar, medievalist, that sort of thing. And then in the early fifties or middle…

…world stage as this mysterious savant of media. He did his work as a Joyce Scholar. That's what he was. Literary critic, Joyce Scholar, medievalist, that sort of thing. And then in the early fifties or middle fifties, he wrote a book, which I've never…

…the books I'm reading from and talking about, and then I'll actually read you a section of McLuhan, because it's a, like Joyce, it's a stylistic thing that you can't really encompass without getting your feet wet. This was his best known book, probably,…

…triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave. So there's a lot of fun in McLuhan, and this comes out of his being a Joyce scholar. You just can't mess with that without fun. This is his third book with Harley through the vanishing point space in…

…brought back to me he was a convert to Catholicism and an extraordinarily complex intellectual, with a medievalist who became a Joyce scholar, who became a communications expert. And in McLuhan, there is a very deep strain of nostalgia for the essence of…

…complex clairvoyance in these matters. His Leopold Bloom of Ulysses, a man of many ideas and many devices, is a freelance salesman. Joyce saw the parallels on one hand between the modern frontier of the verbal and the pictorial, and on the other between…

…to the Masons is to the world of the brick layer as a type of speech itself. On the second page of the wake Joyce is making a mosaic, an Achilles shield, as it were, of all the themes and modes of human speech and communication. Beigmeister Finnegan…

…lived in the broadest way imaginable. In his rush lit too far back for massages before Joshua and judges had given us numbers. Joyce is in the wake, making his own Altamira cave drawings of the entire history of the human mind in terms of its basic…

…fin cycle of tribal institutions can return in the electric age. But if again, then let's make it awake, or awake, or both. Joyce could see no advantage in our remaining locked up in each cultural cycle as in a trance or dream, he discovered the means…

…or profane and civilized. So that's his comment. Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic. These people, Joyce, to some degree, pound, McLuhan, they were the prophets of the world in which we now understand, the world of integrated…

…expounding to his audience. There is a great body of reporterata which constitute a very complex problem for editors. So really, like for Joyce, for McLuhan, the book is the central symbol of the age, the central mystery of our time. In a sense, I sort…

…a very explicit and very early image of what, in Finnegan's wake we get where he says, man will be dirigible. This is now how Joyce does it, only eleven years later. We go from I would be a thing of gold and gold enameling to man will be dirigible.…

…in residence. Is Finnegan's wake. And we've been taking it apart and looking at it and noticing that part of the genius of Joyce. In the way the wake is composed. Is that all terms are transparent. You know, every word, you can see through it to…

…trapped? Is that what you're saying? Well, trapped in artifice, trapped in art. I mean, in a sense, yeah. That's why Proust and Joyce, who are so different. Can be seen to be essentially about the same thing. A true rendering of experience is very hard.…

…used language to layer resonance in the same way that we have been talking here about how the world is made that way. Joyce did the same thing. Essentially, what I'm arguing is a kind of allegorical view, reality. You know, the genius of Ulysses. Joyce…

…way. Joyce did the same thing. Essentially, what I'm arguing is a kind of allegorical view, reality. You know, the genius of Ulysses. Joyce is Ulysses. Now is that a guy wants to buy some kidneys to fry for breakfast. And so he wanders around his…

…I read McLuhan's letters a few years ago, and, you know, McLuhan had a very interesting intellectual history. He was a Joyce scholar and eventually a convert to Catholicism. And in one of his letters, he talks about the four ages of Christianity…