phrase:

     The West shall shake the East awake 
     While ye have the night for morn.

The title of his Finnegans Wake   is a set of multi-levelled puns 
on the reversal by which Western man enters his tribal, or Finn, 
cycle once more, following the track of the old Finn, but wide 
awake this time as we re-enter the tribal night. It is like our 
contemporary consciousness of the unconscious.

     The stepping-up of speed from the mechanical to the 
instant electric form reverses explosion into implosion. In our 
present electric age the imploding or contracting energies of 
our world now clash with the old expansionist and traditional 
patterns of organization. Until recently our institutions and