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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