If you even mouth the words silently, suddenly what seemed incomprehensible ( Hubert Butler called it " Joyce's learned gibberish, " ) leaps into referential meaning, by its sound, since page after page is rich in allusion to familiar phrases, parables, sayings of all kinds and the joyous and totally brilliant wordplay, over and over again imperceivable until you actually listen to it transforms what was an unrelievable agony into an adventure.
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If two people were in a room and one of them wanted to refer to a characteristic of a chair in the room he would say " this chair has four legs " instead of " a chair has four legs . " The former relies on context ( indexical and referential meaning ) by referring to a chair specifically in the room at that moment while the latter is independent of the context ( semantico-referential meaning ), meaning the concept chair.
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If two people were in a room and one of them wanted to refer to a characteristic of a chair in the room he would say " this chair has four legs " instead of " a chair has four legs . " The former relies on context ( indexical and referential meaning ) by referring to a chair specifically in the room at that moment while the latter is independent of the context ( semantico-referential meaning ), meaning the concept chair.
