The Probability of Sense in the Hypermnesiac Machine
Lydia H. Liu · Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre eBooks · 2017
In the literary machine that is known as Finnegans Wake (1939), James Joyce has coined words and phrases that border wildly on nonsense, non-words, or linguistic idiosyncrasies characteristic of schizophrenia. The reader may get a taste of this from one of his sentences which goes:“the circumflexous wall of a singleminded men’s asylum, accentuated by bi tso fb rok engl a ssan dspl itch ina, —Yard inquiries pointed out — that they ad bîn ‘provoked’ ay ^ fork, of à grave Brofèsor; àth é’s Brèa...