In his 1937 letter-story to Stephen, The Cat and the Devil, Joyce refers to the Devil as speaking `a language of his own called Bellsybabble which he makes up as he goes along'. George Sandulescu demonstrates how Joyce aims the Wake's structure at cancelling all monuments of Western civilisation, including Shakespeare and the Bible; over Joyce neither God nor his language shall have dominion. Finnegans Wake is an unique object in our world, in which the greatest exile applies the greatest cunning to create the greatest silence: the Devil's Discourse.