PART ONE

Typography, Iconography,
Engrammatology

(Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this

daybook, what curios of signs (please stoop),

in this allaphbed! Can you rede (since We

and Thou had it out already) its world? It is

the same told of all. Many. Miscegenations

on miscegenations. . . .

For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr

is meed of, made of, hides and hints and

misses in prints. Till ye finally (though not

yet endlike) meet with the acquaintance of

Mister Typus, Mistress Tope and all the little

typtopies. Fillstup. So you need hardly spell

me how every word will be bound over to

carry threescore and ten toptypsical readings

throughout the book

—James Joyce, Finnegans Wake