Two opposite things

“Mr, Joyce could never have performed this particular feat if he had not been, in his make-up, extremely immobile; and yet, in contradiction to that, very open to new technical influences. It is the craftsman in Joyce that is progressive; but the man has not moved since his early days in Dublin. He is on that side a ‘young’ man in some way embalmed.” - Wyndham Lewis, Time and Western Man, Book I, ch. XVI, p. 92.