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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