and if we were to take the sometimes wacky , often amorphous concepts of finnegans wake quite literallyfearsomely believing in hce , alp , the museyroom , the workings of the cycles , and everything else in the book as if it all constituted factual realitythen the experience closest to our own would be the peculiar language-bound credo of glen emmett patrick kealey , the self-styled word sculptor .