they, of course, also make signs in the air.

      “Gutenmorg with his cromagnon charter” expounds by 
mythic gloss the fact that writing meant the emergence of the 
caveman or sacral man from the audile world of simultaneous 
resonance into the profane world of daylight. The reference to 
the masons is to the world of the bricklayer 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: “Bygmeister 
Finnegan, of the Stuttering Hand, freemen’s maurer, lived in the 
broadest way immarginable in his ruchlit toofarback for 
messuages before joshuan 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 
gestures and postures during all phases of human culture and