Joyce on interstices: "...[T]he capillary flow of interaction. To say that these interstitials are documents probably gives them more historical weight than they should have... Dispatches, apologia, meditations, are all closer to the mark; fretwork summons the right kind of troubled ambiguity. More occasional than the longer occasional pieces collected here, the interstitials are in fact public statements requested for various settings, a few inward and about my work, a few outward and about others; some poetical, some didactic, some antic" (4).