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or simultaneous perception of a total and diversified field. Such,
indeed, is symbolism by definition—a collocation, a parataxis
of components representing insight by carefully established
ratios, but without a point of view or lineal connection or
sequential order.
Nothing, therefore, could be more remote from Joyce’s
ratios than the aim of pictorial realism. Indeed, he uses such
realism and such Gutenberg technology as part of his
symbolism. For example, in the seventh or Aeolus episode of
Ulysses the technology of the newspaper is made the occasion
for introducing all of the nine hundred and more rhetorical
figures specified by Quintilian in his Institutes of Oratory . The
figures of classical rhetoric are archetypes or postures of
individual minds. Joyce by means of the modern press
translates them into archetypes or postures of collective