Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols.
The Gutenberg Galaxy : The Making of Typographic Man , (1962), p 183
Year: 1962
Chapter:
Bacon, Francis
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan