The scatological thingy-ness of Joyce at his most antic.

antic, decentered, many-voiced, perverse

Antic without being funny, The Terminal’s attempts at humor are largely predicated on calculating how many pratfalls can be derived from a wet floor

In his antic narrative constructions

a man possessed by the antic spirit of drumming

“I was just playing with him,” Leonard said with his antic smile.

even that book is charged with an antic intensity