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Hence it is an infinite good to mankind when there is full
acceptance of the grotesque, slightly sketched or
expressed; and, if field for such expression be frankly
granted, an enormous mass of intellectual power is
turned to everlasting use, which, in this present century
of ours, evaporates in street gibing or vain revelling; all
the good wit and satire expiring in daily talk, (like foam on
wine,) which in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
had a permitted and useful expression in the arts of
sculpture and illumination, like foam fixed into
chalcedony. (4)
Joyce, that is to say, also accepted the grotesque as a
mode of broken or syncopated manipulation to permit inclusive