In a message dated 10/11/99 3:45:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time, verona_beach@hotpop.com writes: << I don't think you need to justify yourself Jim - just about the first thing they tell you in any class on Joyce is the importance of the epiphany; it's pretty much a given in Joyce scholarship and I barely even realised its a term exclusive to it. >> Oh lord, you scare me :) EVERYTHING on this point is stolen wholesale from Catholicism and redefined. We need to start with the standard meanings before we can appreciate Joyce. Epiclesis is another important one. The guy that played the main agent in The Matrix was another good thing that came out of Australia :) What's his name? Jim