The Story Begins Only When The Book

My Main Theme Is The Extension Of The Nervous System In The Electric Age, And Thus, The Complete Break With Five Thousand Years Of Mechanical Technology. This I State Over And Over Again. I Do Not Say Whether It Is A Good Or Bad Thing. To Do So Would Be Meaningless And Arrogant.

It Is Critical Vision Alone Which Can Mitigate The Unimpeded Operation Of The Automatic.

The Only People Who Have Proof Of Their Sanity Are Those Who Have Been Discharged From Mental Institutions

Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce Specifies The Tower Of Babel As The Tower Of Sleep, That Is, The Tower Of The Witless Assumption, Or What Bacon Calls The Reign Of The Idols.

First We Build The Tools, Then They Build Us.