Northrop Frye

"Finnegans Wake is a kind of hypnagogic structure, words reverberating on themselves without pointing to objects...This may be the hallucinatory verbal world within which God speaks. (1:399)"

"A community`s art is its spiritual vision. (p. 206)"

"The apocalypse is the way the world looks after the ego has disappeared."

"One person by himself is not a complete human being."

"Nothing is more remarkable in the Bible than the absence of argument...Argument is internal continuity. So is logical sequence in narrative: in the Bible the connectives are just "and." (p. 200)"

"This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.(pg.18)"