Conclusion

Or a set of conclusions on the dark side... (see conclusion on the bright side)

This job has been started with the metaphor of Aesopus about the blind men and the elephant. The idea is very simple and consists of grouping appreciations on Joyce in two groups: Those with "blind" assumptions and those with successful attempts who manage to "see" it.
On top of that the strategy was to select jobs centering either in providing a perspective (blind or otherwise) and those who are helpful in glossing up the text.
Obviously there are authors who did it mixed, but unless I could figure a direct correlation in the wording of the text (remember Pound's central idea that every word must be fully charged with meaning) I decided where I would allocate the selected author.

Obvious, also that this selection is entirely of my own and since it is fairly impossible to achieve that, should a panel decide to do it, I leave to the reader accept it or not.

One thing that at my age (72 in 2015) brought me is what perhaps the most famous Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa, said, when asked about if he believed in communications with dead people and he answered :"I don't believe in communication between alive people..."
The real nature of the problem we are facing here is this one... Pound's idea, so cheerfully espoused by Joyce, which is undoubtedly the foremost English speaking person who set to achieve associate meaning with words is doomed to failure no matter how much effort, how much geniality, how much talent has been put to it. Words, whatever the case they are used, cannot express what is to be human...

First and foremost conclusion: It is a case of extremely poor communication

It is very difficult to place the sentence construction of Finnegans Wake under the idea of Phase Structure Rules and it might be confused with the best example of it because due to the fact that the context is so much hidden deep inside that it falls more under the case (and I quote), of context free grammar:

A grammar that uses phrase structure rules is a type of phrase structure grammar - except in computer science, where it is known as just a grammar, usually context-free?

There is much more that links James Joyce to Computers and computers languages. Take a look at His Lexycon .

The following account should clarify how Joyce built many context free phrases:

An anecdote given by Richard Ellmann shows Joyce's unusual attitude: "Becket was staking dictation from Joyce for Finnegans Wake; there was a knock on the door and Joyce said, "Come in". Beckett, who hadn't heard the knock, by mistake wrote down "Come in" as part of the dictated text. Afterwards he read it back to Joyce who said, "What's that 'Come in'? "That`s what you dictated," Beckett replied. Joyce thought for a moment realizing that Beckett hadn`t heard the knock; then he said, "Let it stand". The very fact that the misunderstanding had occurred in actuality gave it prestige for Joyce.' This incident shows - I think - rather more than Kerner suggests, Joyce was not in his own opinion simply writing a book, he was also performing a work of magic.

Second: it would never do...

Whatever he might had in mind, he was doomed to fail when he decided to "square the circle" his way...Printed word is not enough to pursue that...

I have explored somewhere else Victor Hugo`s quote about the relation which has between his printing invention and Notre Dame Cathedral and due to the fact we are now with Internet and the computer being sent back to the era before printing and with jobs like this one, what will happen is that he will be oblivion just like Gothic Cathredals, because it is possible to see very clearly what he was really up to and perhaps what can be said is:

“The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow.” G.M. Trevelyan

Which is what you feel if you visit Chartres...(Notre Dame is always too crowded...)

Third: The worst kind of ignorance

The Ivory tower when denying religion or standard religious ideas, falls prey to what Bertrand Russel concluded when analysing the effect of emancipation from the Church:

This is a standard effect in learned people when the relinquish their religions, specially if they were Christians or catholics. Bertrand Russel pointed out about that effect in Joyce when he said: "The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense" (In A History of Western Philosophy,London, 1946, page 523.

Fourth: The cult of obscurity is very similar to that from the Occultists

As we can see in the Webster's Dictionary, occult theory or practice : belief in or study of the action or influence of supernatural or super normal powers.

The ignorance resides in the fact that this new religion follows Joyce's ideas that words have a power of their own and he could magically do whatever he wanted with them.

The salvation of his new religion is to "understand" what he "buried" in his text and expected scholars to look out when he stated:

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

Fifth: not last not least

Health played a far more important role that it has been appreciated