James Joyce in Finnegans Wake took over the art of the interval as a means of retrieving the fantastic wealth of perception and experience that is stored in ordinary human language. As used by Joyce, the dispensing with the story line became the means of instant grasp of complex wholes, whether in phrases like "casting her perils before swains" or "Jung and easily Freudened," or "though he might have been humble, there's no police like Holmes."