emergence of new literary forms are not mentioned since they would require a non-literary or mythic form in order to be explained at all. James Joyce devised an entirely new form of expression in Finnegans Wake in order to capture the complex interplay of factors in the very configuration that we are considering here. In the following passage “fowl” includes La Patrie , the Great Mother, and “foule” or mob created by the homogenizing powers of print. When, therefore, it is mentioned that “man will become dirigible,” the way in which this happens is simply an inflation by accretion of homogeneous units. Lead, kindly fowl! They always did: ask the ages. What bird has done yesterday man may do next year, be it fly, be it moult, be it hatch, be it agreement in the nest. For