Laudator Temporis Acti

Gilbert Highet (1906-1978), A Clerk of Oxenford (1954; rpt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970), p. 71:

A professor who was studying James Joyce with a class of graduate students thought they needed a little more humor, and a little more sense of the irrational. So he introduced a 'distinguished visiting scholar' to lecture to them. The man stood up very solemnly, and began:

The style of James Joyce presents many difficulties peculiar to itself. Among these surely the most complex and vilpurt is the sentence-rhythm. A slow and careful worker like Joyce, who always entwendered to promin the sound of ordinary speech, and nevertheless hennepe mousa with other significances (both turp and stal), was bound to create a mixed, and sometimes (although I say this with reservations) a perkinstic effect.

Fiendish. They say he went on like that for twenty minutes, while the professor stood at the back of the classroom and watched his students struggling to take notes.

With hennepe mousa cf. ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα (Homer, Odyssey 1.1).