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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