Within the midst of its linguistic obscurities, Joyce embeds a few readily recognizable words. By this act is he only playing with a literary thing, or is he predicting that time, universality, omnilinguality is the means by which future human histories will be told?

And one of the things that elephants have to do, in addition to eating and drinking and being all elephanty, is to have a poo once in a while.

In claiming the existence of extraspective interactions I am not committing myself to any particular analysis or theory of them, nor am I committing myself to the existence of controversial species of extraspective interactions, such as telepathy.

Hand was looking flustered with me, though he was still only half-awake and his bedhead was ridiculous […]