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@Miss_Mouse
No Tweed for me this time. Yes, I'm a bit brokenenened atm.
Always game for some fiction. Are your short stories more or less fictional than Reprographics? I've read a couple, iirc, but can't remember which.
I think the key to James Joyce, and indeed Kafka, Beckett, Proust, Pound and many other writers whose work is broadly categorised as modernist (at least, the way I got over my academic anxiety about it) is to read/hear it out loud, with a sense of humour, and fairly quickly - and not get too fixated on the need to understand every detail/layer/reference/word play/metaphor/etc. which would be a bit like trying to comprehend a person's stream of conscious. Some will stick, some will wash over you, some may never make any sense to you, and each reader will interpret it differently. It's all fine. :)
Like Joyce, I find your characters intriguing and revolting, your narratives both grim and uplifting, your writing style highly audible and sensual - or 'graphic' :) - and able to makes one laugh and squirm simultaneously. And all of it alluding to the state of mind of its narrator/author.
I always picture it played out on the stage.