Word: joycean
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...reader his typographical idiosyncrasies suggest a linotyper's nightmare, he is not really so difficult. Not a writer to be nodded over or dipped into at random, neither does he try to catch the reader napping. If he is read as carefully as he writes, he has few Joycean perplexities (aside from portmanteau words and puns); what looks like a puzzling shorthand will resolve itself into a longhand of his own invention, painstaking and descriptive. His latest, like his best-known book (The Enormous Room), is a diary; it is also a manifesto of the rights...
...What impressed me most in the book," said he "was, first, the immense erudition and, secondly, the utter detachment of the Joycean standpoint, a God's eye view of life, so to speak...