The Hellbox

the hellbox accepts rejects and embraces non-linearity

Photo by Willi Heidelbach, CC BY 2.5, Link

The plate says: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog and feels as if he were in the seventh heaven of typography together with Her- mann Zapf, the most famous artist of the The image is a featured picture on the German and English language Wikipedias and is considered one of the finest in those domains.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy

dog and feels as if he were in the seventh

heaven of programming together with Don-

ald Knuth, the most famous artist of the

the devil is in sorting out the details

In Ulysses, Stephen rejects the concept of historical linearity, but at the same time he cannot adapt to its ambiguity. It remains for him anarchic and threatening. The nonlinear representations in Finnegans Wake, on the other hand, delineate a paradigm that both rejects linearity and embraces complexity. The Museyroom episode and the responses that literary critics have made to it nicely illustrate this process.

Morton Levitt
Joyce and the Joyceans, p.166