The Seventeenth Involucrum: A Paen to the Skill of James Mason; a Defiance to the Neglect of James Joyce; Wrought with Wild Antickes; Resolved in Comely Form

1962: An English alpinist with three doctorates, and a book published on the notoriously difficult Finnegans Wake of James Joyce, accepts a tenure track position in literature and philosophy at Winslow Homer University, Bar Harbor, Maine. Determined to approach the 'New World' of America as an alpinist, first, and as an intellect second, Zoltan von Symogy takes to roaming the Maine forests while awaiting commencement of his teaching duties. While he is savoring what is to be his new home, a...