Contents -- Preface -- Note on Abbreviations -- Introduction: What Are We When We Are Not? -- Part I: The Surface of Language and the Absence of Meaning -- 1. From Soul-Making to Person-Making -- 2. The Logical Form of Fiction -- 3. The Emptiness of Literary Interpretation -- 4. To Be But Not To Mean -- 5. How Do Oracles Mean? -- Part II: Senses and Nonsenses: Joyce's Finnegans Wake and Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations -- 6. A Twitterlitter of Nonsense: Askesis at Finnegans Wake -- 7. The Analogy between Persons and Words -- 8. "The Human Body Is the Best Picture of the Human Soul" -- 9. The Senses of Time -- 10. Being Something and Meaning Something -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.