The same nursery rhyme comments on the consequences 
of the fall of Humpty-Dumpty. That is the point about the 
King’s horses and men. They, too, are fragmented and 
specialized. Having no unified vision of the whole, they are 
helpless. Humpty-Dumpty is an obvious example of integral 
wholeness. The mere existence of the wall already spelt his fall. 
James Joyce in Finnegans Wake  never ceases to interlace these 
themes, and the title of the work indicates his awareness that 
“a-stone-aging” as it may be, the electric age is recovering the 
unity of plastic and iconic space, and is  putting Humpty-
Dumpty back together again.

     The potter’s wheel, like all other technologies, was the 
acceleration of an existing process. After nomad food-
gathering had shifted to sedentary plowing and seeding, the 
need for storage increased. Pots were needed for more and