"Here form IS content, content IS form. You complain that this stuff is not written in English. It is not written at all. It is not to read - or rather it is not only to be read. It is to be looked at and listened to. [Joyce's] writing is not about something; it is that something itself. . . . Here is a savage economy of hieroglyphs. Here words are not the polite contortions of 20th century printer's ink. They are alive. They elbow their way onto the page, and glow and blaze and fade and disappear."

Beckett, Samuel. (Dante… Bruno. Vico.. Joyce, Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress, (Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1929). Reprinted in I can't go on, I'll go on: a selection from Samuel Beckett's work. Ed., Seaver, Richard (New York, Grove Press, 1976), p. 60.