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involvement, the literate West tried to find some sort of
compromise in a larger sense of collective responsibility. The
sudden impulse to this end was just as subliminal and obscure
as the earlier literary pressure toward individual isolation and
irresponsibility; therefore, nobody was happy about any of the
positions arrived at. The Gutenberg technology had produced a
new kind of visual, national entity in the sixteenth century that
was gradually meshed with industrial production and
expansion. Telegraph and radio neutralized nationalism but
evoked archaic tribal ghosts of the most vigorous brand. This is
exactly the meeting of eye and ear, of explosion and implosion,
or as Joyce puts it in the Wake , “In that Earopean end meets
Ind.” The opening of the European ear brought to an end the
open society and reintroduced the Indic world of tribal man to
West End woman. Joyce puts these matters not so much in
cryptic, as in dramatic and mimetic, form. The reader has only