WAKE: Cold Reading Finnegans Wake (Moon Street Media)

Flushed with their firestuffostered friendship, WAKE celebrates St. Patrick’s Day by exploring all of the many ways that Finnegans Wake refers to whiskey: Ireland’s beloved, potent créatúr. Joined by world whiskey historian and former Sweny’s volunteer Fionnán O’Connor, we explode some myths regarding monks, St Patrick, and potatoes, brush off our pub stool wisdom, prepare the worm on our darling little stills, and consider the role trust plays in what is simultaneously the oldest and youngest whiskey industry in the world. So, tuck yourself into a snug in your local shebeen with a ball of malt, and don’t forget to get in on a round: we bet you can’t stay for just one. Happy St. Paddy’s!

Today's chatters: Fionnán O'Connor, Toby Malone, TJ Young

References:

The Amber Isle Teaser https://vimeo.com/1029613764 

James Joyce’s whiskey connections https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/culture/25971/james-joyce-s-whiskey-connections/

Ulysses Whiskey https://www.ulysseswhiskey.com/our-story

Dave Broom https://thewhiskymanual.uk/James Joyce’s whiskey connections | Scotch Whiskyhello-everyone/ 

Finnegan’s Wake and Joyce

https://steemit.com/finneganswake/@harlotscurse/finnegan-s-wake-and-joyce

The Fall and Rise of Irish Whiskey: https://liquorstore.com/blog/the-fall-and-rise-of-irish-whiskey/ 

A Sense of Place: a journey around Scotland’s whisky https://the-right-spirit.com/2023/10/06/book-a-sense-of-place-by-dave-broom/ 

Fionnán’s forthcoming Créatúr: https://creatur.ie/

Fundraising for Créatúr: https://whiskymag.com/articles/irish-whiskey-historian-launches-fundraiser-for-new-book-creatur/ 

Fionnán gets emotional: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVbkxCU6BV4 

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Neil is back, and we are going to hear some opinions! TJ and Toby welcome the brilliant Neil Wechsler back to the pod to finish reading 1.5 and then get into some analysis of what we've heard over the last two episodes. We'll talk about the unexpected benefits of reading aloud, find out what feels just like a really good university course, and establish the Neil Wechsler drinking game to get you sauced.

This week's readers: Neil Wechsler, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 125 pages complete, 503 pages to go; 19.9% read.

Contextual Notes

Neil Wechsler’s website: https://wechslerprojects.com/

Neil on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wechslerprojects/

Our favourite play, Grenadine: https://www.amazon.ca/Grenadine-Neil-Wechsler/dp/0300149921

Neil on New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/37010/neil-wechsler

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Ever have trouble remembering things? Phone numbers? Grocery lists? Names of casual acquaintances? If so, get ready to feel very self-conscious, because on this week's WAKE, we meet the indomitable Neal Kosaly-Meyer, a musician who decided, entirely of his own volition, to spend seventeen years memorising and performing the entirety of Finnegans Wake. Seriously. Toby and TJ caught Neal as he prepared to take on the punishing 'Tales From the Inn' chapter (premiering December 2025!), where we discuss memorisation, how the Wake is like music that most people neglect to play, rhythm, and, of course, offer WAKE's first and definitive opinion on Kendrick Lamar at the Super Bowl. Don't forget: it's a new WAKE!

This week's chatters: Neal Kosaly-Meyer, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Contextual Notes

Neal on CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.5400965/this-man-is-memorizing-and-performing-all-688-pages-of-finnegans-wake-1.5399495 

Neal Kosaly-Meyer on Waywords and Meansigns: https://www.waywordsandmeansigns.com/artists/neal-kosaly-meyer/

Neal on NPR: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/24/791045690/seattle-man-plans-to-memorize-and-perform-joyces-finnegans-wake

Neal on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nealkosaly/

The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/theater/2019/12/04/42157754/the-seattle-man-who-is-memorizing-an-unreadable-novel 

Neal in performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HumFP8dLffk 

Gavan Kennedy, Finnegan Wakes: a Machine of Memory and Meaning https://journal.burningman.org/2018/08/black-rock-city/participate-in-brc/finnegan-wakes-a-machine-of-memory-and-meaning/

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Under a full moon and with a pint of Guinness in hand, WAKE welcomes our very first Dublin-based reader, as correctly-accented Sarah Kane joins Toby and TJ to kick off Chapter 3.3. Sarah tells us all about participating in Bloomsday as a neophyte Joycean (“a lifeguard that can’t swim”), slips into a Joyce fugue state regardless of best laid plans, and reminds us that a cold read is really just what the kids nowadays call Rawdogging. With the glorious Irishness of it all to bring us through, we discuss Joyce reading groups, Sweny’s Pharmacy, Anthony Burgess, and, in a bombshell twist none of you saw coming, TJ's authentic Irish heritage.

This week's readers: Sarah Kane, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 496 pages complete, 132 pages to go; 78.98% read.

Contextual Notes

Sarah Kane on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/bloodonyourshoe/

Bloomsday in Dublin: https://www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/

Sweny’s Pharmacy: https://www.sweny.ie/

Sweny’s on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/swenyspharmacydublin/

Anthony Burgess’s A Shorter Finnegans Wake: https://www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/a-shorter-finnegans-wake-editing-an-epic/

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Grab your notebooks and start practicing your filthiest marginalia, it's Night Lessons time! When confronted with the most logistically challenging chapter of the Wake (columns! footnotes! diagrams! marginalia!), Toby and TJ sent out the Neil-Signal, and brought in our favourite purist-in-the-nicest sense, Neil Wechsler, to establish order. In this first part of three episodes reading this complex chapter, Toby, TJ and Neil inhabit the schooldesks of Shem, Shaun, and Issy, and have some fun navigating the minutiae.

This week's readers: Neil Wechsler, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 277 pages complete, 351 pages to go; 44.11% read.

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Against all odds, WAKE chugs along, and we finish chapter 1! Toby and TJ discuss Wake-inspired band names, typography, and bring the dramatic in a performance of Mutt and Jute.

This week's readers: Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 29 pages complete, 599 pages to go; 4.62% read.

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Book Four is upon us, and it is with mixed feelings, both excited and sad, that we launch into the final segments of Finnegans Wake. Helping us along the way is fan-favourite WAKE veteran, internationally-acclaimed author, Lucy "old rubberskin" Brazier, who helps us get into a typically ribald discussion of Simlish, Instagram thots, tortoise dreams, terrible superhero names, fan fiction, and a plan for a Biddy the Hen statue in Phoenix Park. Come for the reading, stay for our brutal takedown of the Oxford World's Classic: it's more fun than a sailor on a horse!

This week's readers: Lucy Brazier, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 613 pages complete, 15 pages to go; 97.61% read.

Contextual Notes

Brancusi’s Whirligig https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/online/ulysses/brancusis-symbol-joyce 

AO3 James Joyce Fanfic: https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Finnegans%20Wake%20-%20James%20Joyce/works 

Finnegans Wake and Spongebob Fanfic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/9436142 

Mutt and Jeff https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/comic-art/about-this-exhibition/early-years-1890s-to-1920s/mutt-and-jeff-an-unlikely-pair/

Three Castles Burning on early houses: https://threecastlesburning.libsyn.com/the-dawning-of-the-day-last-orders-at-the-early-house 

Lucy Brazier’s website https://portergirl.com/

Finnegans What?: Finnegans Wake - A guide by an idiot https://www.amazon.ca/Finnegans-What-Wake-guide-idiot/dp/1092156100/

Lucy on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/brazierlucy/

Lucy on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/@lucybrazierauthor/

Lucy on Twitter https://twitter.com/@portergirl100/

If Movies Ended When Someone Said the Title: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DMndH8QiI4

If Movies Ended When Someone Said the Title Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzMsbdAQRg4&t=0s 

If Movies Ended When Someone Said the Title 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT41rqh-Udk 

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WAKE gets musical! We welcome our first guest, musical genius Meg Logue, who has arranged and performed potentially the most melodious cover ever of The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly. We discuss gravelly voiced Irishmen, German opera, singing at wakes, and agree that we'd all like a sip of whatever Poolbeg's on.

This week's readers: Meg Logue, Toby Malone

Progress: 47 pages complete, 581 pages to go; 7.4% read.

Contextual Notes

Anthony Burgess singing “Persse O’Reilly”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QemsM_ROWSo

The Dubliners, “Humpty Dumpty”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc15EGklXQ0

Useful Resources

The music of Joyce: www.james-joyce-music.com

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No one ever likes to WAKE alone, but sometimes the occasion calls for it. On a dark day in WAKE-world, Toby takes the reins solo to deal with the apuckalips, or at least what feels like it. Along the way, Jaun's entirely inappropriate conversation with Issy provides a distraction, tempered by side discussions of chaos theory, John Cage, Idiocracy, and hope for the future.

This week's readers: Toby Malone

Progress: 473 pages complete, 155 pages to go; 75.32% read.

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We pause the reading of the Wake this week to look back on Book One: HCE, ALP, Shaun, Shem and Izzy have led us on a wild, rumour-filled ride, and we want to process that before we move on! In a free-wheeling conversation, we consider Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812, theatre riots, The Magus, Beowulf, the prophetic dream lucidity of Buffy Summers, Cain's Jawbone, I Think You Should Leave, and The Midnight Gospel's Dada roots. Come for the typical lack of analytical depth, stay for the soon-to-be-regretted promise that the podcast will culminate not only with tattoos, but with a stage adaptation about TJ's hero, Festy King.

This week's chatters: Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 216 pages complete, 412 pages to go; 34.39% read.

Contextual Notes

Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hvCd41o7Bs

The Magus and its variations https://www.goodreads.com/questions/464864-has-anyone-here-read-the-original-version

Cain’s Jawbone https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/12/26/solving-cains-jawbone-murder-mystery/

I’m Thinking of Ending Things https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80211559

I Think You Should Leave https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80986854

The Midnight Gospel https://www.netflix.com/title/80987903

Playboy Riots https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/sep/23/playboy-western-world-old-vic

Rite Riots https://www.classicfm.com/composers/stravinsky/news/rite-and-the-riot/

Ubu Riots https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/08/an-inglorious-slop-pail-of-a-play/

The Lady of Shalott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_of_Shalott_(painting)

Let James Joyce Jazz up your Vocabulary! https://www.amazon.ca/Finnegans-Wake-Lextionary-James-bulary/dp/146358945X

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Before today's episode, Toby and TJ had never heard the word "stramash", but now we can't stop saying it! Scottish musician, editor, author, and all-rounder Tommy MacKay joins the WAKE fold, not only to teach us this ever-so useful Scottish term for chaos, but also to discuss his amazing Joyce-music 'stramashups', the pitfalls of adaptation, pioneering punk music, creepy death masks, and the things that may or may not be appropriate to say to a younger sister. Yes, Shaun is up to all sorts of trouble this time around, lecturing Issy and her classmates in a mansplainy way that has shades of Laertes and Ophelia, but way filthier. It's an accessible, rollicking chapter, and the only one so far that features Denti Alligator, so everyone wins.

This week's readers: Tommy MacKay, TJ Young, Toby Malone

Progress: 448 pages complete, 180 pages to go; 71.34% read.

Contextual Notes:

The Daily Reckless: https://www.dailyreckless.com/

Finnegans Dreams: https://www.dailyreckless.com/2024/08/15/finnegans-dreams/

Cunstuntonoplies (Patrick Horgan vs. They Might Be Giants) https://www.dailyreckless.com/2024/10/22/cunstuntonoplies/

Thunderwords! https://www.dailyreckless.com/2024/09/16/thunderwords/

James Joyce’s death mask: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/james-joyce-death-mask-1941/TQGMVB7smSO0JA?hl=en

Tommy MacKay on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tommy.mackay/

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Joyce promised 'Sdense' in 1.3 and boy did he deliver! This week Toby and TJ learn their lesson for being overly confident last time with a dose of reality. For the first half of this challenging chapter, we discuss Wake-inspired tattoos, how to handle critics and slanderers, and find a use for sharkskin smokewallet!

This week's readers: Toby Malone

Progress: 61 pages complete, 567 pages to go; 9.7% read.

Contextual Notes

Stephen Crowe’s Wake in Progress:  http://www.wakeinprogress.com/

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Come for the thunderwords, stay for the fun. WAKE: Cold Reading Finnegans Wake, on Apple Podcasts and Spotify now.

We find ourselves at the end of Book Two, and you know what that means: another ever-popular recap episode! Using the mind-bending brilliance of the László Moholy-Nagy Finnegans Wake Diagram as a jumping-off point, Toby and TJ try to rank the chapters of Book 2, nostalgically reconsider Night Lessons, and compare the text to a disparate collection of cultural touchstones. Topics may include, to varying levels of detail: JJ Abrams, Luigi Pirandello, Riverdale, The Master and Margarita, the Berliner Ensemble, Punchdrunk's Sleep No More, Passing Strange, ChatGPT, andThe Sound and the Fury. Join us in the temporary high that is generated when two readers assume that hubris isn't really a thing, and that surely they're well past the hardest part now...

(Apologies for the sound quality on Toby's mic, it's an ongoing problem that will be fixed)

This week's chatters: Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 399 pages complete, 229 pages to go; 63.54% read.

Contextual Notes:

Toby on the New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/38306/toby-malone

TJ on the New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/9739/tj-young

László Moholy-Nagy's visual representation of Finnegans Wake

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/633-lszl-moholy-nagys-visual-representation-of-finnegans-wake

real_finnegans_wake on the chart https://www.instagram.com/p/CRkpUlXs5YT/

real_finnegans_wake on the graph https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci4aO_8sh0f/

S. by Doug Dorst and JJ Abrams https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/j-j-abrams/s/9780316201643/?lens=mulholland-books

Sleep No More: https://mckittrickhotel.com/events/sleep-no-more/

Passing Strange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V7jjjshvBE

Shakespeare’s Sonnets, at the Berliner Ensemble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnCvotmFtYM

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Just like a well-ordered barndance, Toby, TJ, and Neil shuffle one step the right to find new dance partners, with all new takes on the mighty columns of Night Lessons! With footnotes that would make David Foster Wallace blush, Latin, French, and a parenthetical that spans five entire pages, Joyce is really making us work this week. Come sit in the back of the classroom, keep your spitballs to yourself, and try not to carve anything into the desks.

This week's readers: Neil Wechsler, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 292 pages complete, 336 pages to go; 46.5% read.

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As the whiskey and Guinness flow, the Tales at the Inn get all the more outlandish, Taff and Butt get out of hand, and a Russian general cops it. This week in WAKE, we geek out about geeking out with Carly Derderian, consider whether Thornton Wilder cribbed The Skin of Our Teeth from Finnegans Wake, relax our mouths enough to speak like a Newfoundlander and unlock the meaning of the language of the Beatles. And TJ is back!

This week's readers: Carly Derderian, TJ Young, Toby Malone

Progress: 354 pages complete, 274 pages to go; 52.87% read.

Contextual Notes

Nowe the Lost, streaming on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/nowe_the_lost

Carly on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carlyann_dee/

Gontarski, S.E. “Wilder’s Joyce: Inspiration, Borrowing, Appropriation, Plagiarism.” ABEI Journal – The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, v. 25, n. 1, 2023, pp. 29-46.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373008972_Wilder's_Joyce_Inspiration_Borrowing_Appropriation_Plagiarism

Gibbs, Walcott. Finnegans Teeth, The New Yorker. https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1942-12-26/flipbook/034/

Campbell, Joseph, and Henry Morton Robinson. "The Skin of Whose Teeth? The Strange Case of Mr. Wilder's New Play and Finnegans Wake". The Saturday Review. December 19, 1942. No link.

Come Together! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45cYwDMibGo

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It's an episode to savour, as Toby and TJ look back on the always entertaining Book 3 of the Wake, and all the fun we had along the way. With great guests, amazing community, purist support, and laughs aplenty, Book 3 has been all the fun you'd expect from the segment of the Wake set just before the dawn. With discussions that include global simulacra, along with legendary Wakeists like Bernard Benstock, Simon Loekle, Ben Watson, and Richard Harte, we throw the doors wide to encourage you to access the inaccessible here on Wake, where the Tap-Out button is no longer welcome.

This week's chatters: Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 590 pages complete, 38 pages to go; 93.95% read.

Contextual Notes

Trent Dalton

Brandon Nicklaus’s blog From Swerve of Shore to Bend of Bay

r/jamesjoyce

r/wakepod

WAKE on YouTube

WAKE Part 1 Supercut

WAKE Part 2 Supercut

Benstock, Bernard. Joyce Again’s Wake.

Collard, David. Multiple Joyce. London: Sagging Meniscus P, 2022.

The legacy of Simon Loekle

The Wake in pictures, Peter Quadrino

FW as simulacrum

Katarzyna Bazarnik JOYCE, LIBERATURE AND WRITING OF THE BOOK

Collected Epiphanies of James Joyce: A Critical Edition

John Gordon filling the gaps

Documents from Furina: 

i. Christmas Eve, written in Trieste in 1904 as attested to his brother Stanislaus; a short story (finished but fair copy incomplete) intended for Dubliners but withdrawn due to unknown reasons; a fragment was later reincorporated into Clay.

ii. The Cat of Beaugency, dit The Cat and the Devil, written on 10 August 1936 in Villers-sur-Mer in a letter to his grandson, the late Stephen James Joyce; epistolary, infantile fable.

iii. The Cats of Copenhagen, written on 5 September 1936 in Copenhagen's Turist Hotel in a postcard to his grandson (one may perhaps consider it a sort-of 'sequel' to the previous entry), the late Stephen James Joyce; epistolary, infantile fable.

iv. The incipit of the holograph manuscript of The Dead, from the collections of Yale University.

v. The original version of the short story The Sisters, as published (under the pseudonym Stephen Dædalus) in the "Our Weekly Story" section of The Irish Homestead on 13 August 1904; as commissioned by George William "Æ" Russell, who later appeared in Ulysses.

vi. An extract from a letter (dated 14 August 1925) to Harriet Shaw Weaver: a poem called The Waste Land; a parody of T. S. Eliot's chef d'œuvre of the same name.

vii. An extract from a similar, earlier letter (dated 13 June 1925) to the same recipient: a poem called Canto; a parody of Ezra Pound's modernist epic - it is not a parody of any particular canto but a general jab at the style.

viii. The history and evolution of the poem "Tilly", the first and 'bonus' poem of Pomes Penyeach; written in Dublin in 1904.

ix. A remastered and enhanced version of Joyce declaiming John F. Taylor's oration from the seventh episode, 'Aeolus', of Ulysses.

x. A recording of Joyce's only other musical composition (aside from The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly) - Bid Adieu - setting the eleventh entry from his début collection of poetry, Chamber Music. The singer is tenor Kevin McDermott and the pianist is Ralph Richey.

xi. The full text - part I and part II - of Finn's Hotel; eleven 'epicleti' which were sketches of the Work in Progress, written in Paris and Bognor Regis in 1923. .pdf available here.

xii. C. K. Ogden's 1932 translation of the last four pages of the Anna Livia Plurabelle closing chapter of Book I, as supervised by the artist, intoBasic English, along with the translator's preface.

Ben Watson and Frank Zappa

Ben Watson: Finnegans Wake vs. Theory

Here Comes Everybody’s Karma

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WAKE loves guests! This Bloomsday week, Toby and TJ welcome the incomparable Dr. Natalie Hoskins, professor of communication, to give us her professional perspective on pleasure reading, broadcasting thoughts, and desperately looking for meaning in the subtext. Also, Natalie joins us to read from 1.4 of the Wake, where Festy King defends himself, HCE hides in a coffin, and Kate Strong seeks more tips. Will we make sense of it? Spoiler: nope, but we make up for it with plenty of ambient construction noise!

This week's readers: Natalie Hoskins, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 90 pages complete, 538 pages to go; 14.33% read.

Contextual Notes

Bloomsday:

On the 120th Bloomsday in New York: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/16/arts/bloomsday-women.html

In Dublin: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/06/16/in-pictures-bloomsday-2024/

And in my home town of Toronto: https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/down-a-guinness-on-the-danforth-ogle-a-statue-at-the-rom-or-simply-gaze/article_4fd57b86-28d3-11ef-bcfd-97d4a4c9ab2c.html

John Durham Peters’ Speaking into the Air https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo3656803.html

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In the grand tradition of Finnegans Wake, WAKE has looped back around on itself to become a self-generating machine, as we welcome back musical innovator and the most reckless of stramashers, Tommy Mackay, to talk about WAKE: the Album! Yes, this very podcast is honoured to be the inspiration for at least half the tracks on Tommy's new (stra)mash-up album of music, smashing WAKE readings into the music of Taylor Swift, Wham!, Devo, and more, with more groan-worthy dad-joke pun titles than you could possibly handle.

There's a sailor on a horse! There's an invitation to suck a sugarstick! There's Gráinne O'Malley's girl power!

Join us for a track-by-track odyssey through WAKE: the Album, in the hope that no takedown notices emerge to ruin anyone's fun.

This week's chatters: Tommy Mackay, Toby Malone, TJ Young

References

WAKE: the Album on Bandcamp

WAKE: the Album on the Daily Reckless

Album details:

A collection of stramash-ups by Tommy Mackay drawn from readings of James Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake'

Main sources:

• WAKE podcast - www.youtube.com/@WAKEpod 
• One Little Goat Theatre Company - www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake 

Released April 4, 2025

Clips used by permission from the WAKE podcast by Toby Malone and TJ Young and also the audio-visual book by One Little Goat Theatre Company read by Richard Harte, directed by Adam Seelig.

Individual credits in song info.

all rights reserved

1. Finnegan's Wake 03:38. trad. Played and sung by Kevin Kennedy from the One Little Goat theatre company production, directed by Adam Seelig. www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake
2. Wake Me Up Before You Goan 03:13. performed by Richard Harte from the One Little Goat theatre company production. Music - Maucoli the pianoman's version of Wham's 'Wake Me Up Before You Go Go.''
3. The Ballad Of Persse O'Reilly 06:31. performed by Meg Logue from the Wake podcast.
4. Thunderwords 01:58. read by Adam Harvey, Joyce Geek - joycegeek.com/thundervideos/ Music - Thunderbirds theme tune
5. Tip It! 04:37. performed by Richard Harte from the One Little Goat theatre company production. Backing track - 'Whip It!' by Devo.
6. Denti Alligator 02:43. From the Wake podcast, read by Toby Malone, TJ Young, Tommy Mackay.  Music - 'See You Later Alligator' Bill Haley and The Comets
7. Thunderslog 04:06. from the Wake podcast -Toby Malone, TJ Young. Music Steve 'n' Seagulls live cover of AC/DC's 'Thunderstruck.' Lady Macbeth - Kate Fleetwood from the 2010 Rupert Goold production.
8. Cunstuntonoplies 02:48. read by Patrick Horgan, 1985.  Music - 'Istanbul Not Constantinople' by They Might Be Giants.
9. Wake It Off 03:45. performed by Richard Harte from the One Little Goat theatre company production.  Backing track 'Shake It Off ' by Taylor Swift.
10. Respectable 03:20. Seth Austin from the Wake podcast.  Music - 'Respectable' by Mel and Kim.
11. Suck It Yourself, Sugarstick! 03:48. Toby Malone, Sarah Kane from the Wake podcast. Music - 'Suck It And See' by Arctic Monkeys.
12. Wake That 06:20. performed by Richard Harte from the One Little Goat theatre company production. Music - 'Never Forget instrumental' by Take That.

Bonus Tracks:

• Hi Ho Silver Sailor https://www.dailyreckless.com/2025/04/06/hi-ho-silver-sailor/
• Fanfare for ALP
• Olwen Fouéré’s riverrun: ⁠https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/feb/14/riverrun-joyce-finnegans-wake-olwen-fouere-national-theatre⁠

Other references:

Allaster Mckallester: https://www.instagram.com/mckallaster/ 

ReWiggled: https://open.spotify.com/album/7pMmcRjBt41hvqnFQHqYb2 

Finnegans Dreams: https://www.dailyreckless.com/2024/08/15/finnegans-dreams/ 

McCourt, John. ‘Denti Alligator' or ‘Airtight Alligator': Reading Dante with Joyce and Beckett.

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Hooraymost! It’s the dirtiest chapter featuring insect erotica in all of literature, so grab your doodlers and bungholes, we’re going spizzing! Best of all, beloved Wakexpert Lucy Brazier finds room on her fagroaster to get down to some Clowntalkin about the savage rivalry between Shaun and his brother as we cover chapter 3.1! We wonder about narrative-minded donkeys, ponder what it would take to have the smell of an old woman come off you, name-check Monty Python, and plan a letter-based tourist trap, all ahead of the one thunderword that has 101 letters, just to prove a point. It’s a pervy, raucous episode of WAKE, and we couldn’t have enjoyed it more.

(Apologies for the sound quality on Toby's mic, it's an ongoing problem that will be fixed)

This week's readers: Lucy Brazier, TJ Young, Toby Malone

Progress: 428 pages complete, 200 pages to go; 68.15% read.

Contextual Notes:

Lucy Brazier’s website https://portergirl.com/

Finnegans What?: Finnegans Wake - A guide by an idiothttps://www.amazon.ca/Finnegans-What-Wake-guide-idiot/dp/1092156100/

Ulysses! Sex, Soap & a Lucky Potato: (It’s Ulysses. But For Normal People)https://www.amazon.ca/Ulysses-Sex-Soap-Lucky-Potato/dp/B096LWKB43

Lucy on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/brazierlucy/

Lucy on Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/@lucybrazierauthor/

Lucy on Twitter https://twitter.com/@portergirl100/

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It's the most watery episode of WAKE so far, as we cruise past the 1/3 complete mark and tackle the legendary 1.8: "Anna Livia." Toby takes hubris to a whole new level by attempting to read the entire chapter, cold, without breaks, or assistance, as TJ furiously circles all of the river-name puns. We discuss remarkably knowledgeable washerwomen, the fine line between gossip and mythology, how Joyce would react to ChatGPT, and get to hear the voice of the man himself.

Water you waiting for? Dive in!

This week's readers: Toby Malone

Progress: 216 pages complete, 412 pages to go; 34.39% read.

Contextual Notes:

Chapter 1 Draft of 1.8:  https://www.reddit.com/r/jamesjoyce/comments/14qzjvy/the_first_draft_of_the_anna_livia_plurabelle/

Edna O'Brien: how James Joyce’s Anna Livia Plurabelle shook the literary world: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/27/edna-obrien-how-james-joyces-anna-livia-plurabelle-shook-the-literary-world

Anna Livia on Peter Chrisp’s Joyce blog From Swerve of Shore to Bend of Bay: https://peterchrisp.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-rivers-of-anna-livia-plurabelle.html

The 1117 rivers listed in Raphael Slepon's Finnegans Wake Extensible Elucidation Treasury: http://www.fweet.org/cgi-bin/fw_grep.cgi?i=1&o=1&c=1&a=1&b=1&s=_C,Rivers_

FinWake.com’s illuminated 1.8 with river images:  https://www.finwake.com/ch08/ch08.htm

Joyce reading the chapter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCFzBRMMBCw&t=79s

More on the recording:  https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/online/ulysses/recording-anna-livia-plurabelle

Not mentioned in the episode but still interesting…

Fionn O Marcaigh’s All About Anna Livia: https://storiesfromthewaterside.ie/stories/all-about-anna-livia/

Anna Livia Plurabelle-inspired tattoo: https://www.facebook.com/fantinitattoo/posts/is-there-any-fans-of-james-joyce-herethis-tattoo-is-my-interpretation-of-anna-li/2668790800036198/

Anna Livia Plurabella (sic) was an actress in porn films in the 1970s… https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2193280/?ref_=tt_cl_t_2

“We need an ALP statue. Make it a lady, but also make it a river.” The sculpture Anna Livia by Éamonn O'Doherty, in Croppies Memorial Park, Dublin, Ireland, known as the ‘Floozie in the Jacuzzi’ and the ‘Hoor in the Sewer’: originally it was a water feature with waterfalls in the main street of Dublin, but people vandalized it and dumped washing liquid into the water feature, flooding the streets with soap: http://www.olddublintown.com/anna-livia-sculpture.html

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WAKE buys you a third round and settles in for yet another Tale at the Inn, where we prominently feature multiple guns, KC Jowls and the little-known horror film Coach with the Six Insides. We bid welcome to another of Toby's former students, Ryan Benson Smith, for a lively discussion that includes a Wake-Ramones mashup, the Bluey theme song, and how media romanticises the Irish. Along the way, we enjoy a sparkling reading with the growing knowledge that everyone we're reading about is going to have a terrible headache tomorrow.

This week's readers: Ryan Benson Smith, TJ Young, Toby Malone

Progress: 370 pages complete, 258 pages to go; 58.92% read.

Contextual Notes

Tommy Mackay’s Finnegans Dreams: Ramones and Joyce project:

https://variousartists11.bandcamp.com/track/dont-go-earwicker 

Thunderwords are Go! https://www.dailyreckless.com/2024/09/16/thunderwords/

Space Pirates of Planet Penzance: https://dgarverick78.wixsite.com/spacepiratespenzance

NYC Book Hoes Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-hoes-podcast/id1728444763

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It’s always a treat when your smartest friend can join you for a chat: especially when it's the kind of smartest friend who makes you feel smarter yourself. Yes, award-winning visionary Neil Wechsler is back with us again to read a part of 3.3, roll past the 500 page mark, and to get deep into the weeds on meaning, immersion, expectation, and whether or not it’s actually a bad thing to be pretentious. It’s likely a good thing that we gave ourselves a pass on pretentiousness, because then we immediately get right into name-checking Socrates, Freud, Borges, Albee, Camus, and Lorde as we consider what it looks like as denizens at ‘the middle’ of the Wake. Come listen to our exagmination of the facts “thus being reduced to nothing,” and then, when all is said and done, stop to consider what it all would sound like... underwater.

This week's readers: Neil Wechsler, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 516 pages complete, 112 pages to go; 82.17% read.

Contextual Notes:

Neil on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wechslerprojects/

Zinzin, the business: https://www.zinzin.com/our-story/our-name/

Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress (1929): 

• Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Exagmination_Round_His_Factification_for_Incamination_of_Work_in_Progress
• Open Access full text! https://zehfilardo.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/our-exagmination-round-his-factification-for-incamination-of-work-in-progress-searcheable.pdf
• Add to your library: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/our-exagmination-round-his-factification-incamination-work-progress/
• Pretend you’ve read it: https://goodreads.com/book/show/59699.James_Joyce_Finnegans_Wake_Our_Exagmination_Round_His_Factification_for_Incamination_of_Work_in_Progress

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Grab your torches and buffs, it's time for another episode of Survivor: Finnegans Wake edition... Experts say that the best way to manage unprocessed trauma is to talk it through, to normalise what you've experienced. Here at WAKE we are all about offering all angles and perspectives on Finnegans Wake: and it was only a matter of time until we interviewed someone who did not enjoy the experience! Fascinating polyglot Ana Dahlberg is a professed lover of Joyce, a participant in Bloomsday festivities, and is a certified member of an extremely exclusive club: she has survived finishing Finnigans Wake. Today, we talk to Ana about her experience, which ran the gamut of emotions, from frustration to exasperation to bewilderment to rage, and all the way back again, in such a fashion that the only way she could describe it was to suggest Morrissey write a song about her and the book that just doesn't care what she thinks. In this delightful, non-reading episode, join Toby and TJ with Ana, with the rarest of insights about how it feels to actually finish the Wake (spoiler: not as satisfying as you'd hope).

This week's chatters: Ana Dahlberg, Toby Malone, TJ Young

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With stubbornness and defiance, WAKE welcomes the wonderful Igor Belokrinitsky, representative of the Ukrainian Wake in Progress Finnegans Wake reading group! Igor joins Toby and TJ for a wide-ranging conversation about the true meaning of indomitability, where Joyce stands in to tell prescient lessons about colonialism, independence, identity, language and exile, which speak directly to the plight of the brave, besieged Ukrainians. We talk about Thomas Pynchon, Nestor Makhno, Monty Python, Joseph Cornell's boxes, and the brilliant mind maps created by Linda Lotiel for each Ukrainian reading session. In war, schadenfreude is necessary, so take your shots at the Russian General if you're a true Wake Otaku, and gird your wedgewords for an episode that is just as generative as it is consumptive. WAKE stands with Ukraine!

This week's chatters: Igor Belokrinitsky, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Contextual Notes

A note from Igor:

...And as you graciously offered to support our mission, please point your listeners to uafirstaid.com/en specializing in first aid kits and tourniquets.

We have no rare earth minerals to offer in return, but would happily unearth a limerick!

A man who was orange in hue

Held a rather peculiar view

That his fire department

Could rob our apartment

Which was "merely getting his due"

Monty Python’s Summarise Proust Competition: https://montypython.fandom.com/wiki/Summarize_Proust_Competition

• Find us on BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/wake-in-progress.bsky.social⁠

• To participate in a future reading, directly contact igor.belokrinitsky@outlook.com or logvinenko.alexander88@gmail.com

Linda's mind maps can be seen at maybeday.net/night/mind_maps.html

The Mind Map Linda made for the reading that Toby joined! https://bsky.app/profile/wake-in-progress.bsky.social/post/3limtxbb65k2y

The puzzles from Toby’s episode: https://bsky.app/profile/wake-in-progress.bsky.social/post/3liabhj3jzk2x

Episode 22 with Bobby Campbell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSNs9hcLTl4 

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This week we break things down to the quark level to bring you mythical love stories (featuring a king named Mark), ghost-written historical romances, interminable sentences, and Joycean numerology. Jackie Mahoney joins the team and expertly weaves their way through questions of whether chapter 2.4 is about Tristan and Isolde, or if it's more about about the four perverts leering at them from the dock, and we finish up with a rousing consideration of Joyce as Beyoncé, the author as God, squelchy onomatopoeia, and, inevitably, the music of Evanescence.

Trigger warning: descriptions of bodily noises.

(Apologies for the sound quality on Toby's mic, it's an ongoing problem that will be fixed)

This week's readers: Jackie Mahoney, TJ Young, Toby Malone

Progress: 399 pages complete, 229 pages to go; 63.54% read.

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It's an episode of WAKE to make Grim Grandma Grunt, as Toby and TJ return from a long reading break to finish up Book 3! With three special readers providing their dulcet tones, we discuss whether there is any actual use to academic summaries of the text, see Joyce's perspective on parenting, puzzle over more cricket innuendo than you could ever possibly need, and agree that without the Wake, there's no Star Wars. Join us for the thunderslog!

This week's readers: Toby Malone, TJ Young, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Patrick Robinson, Bridie Malone

Progress: 590 pages complete, 38 pages to go; 93.95% read.

Contextual Notes

The Inseparables: https://newplayexchange.org/script/2031424/the-inseparables 

The Great Guinness heist: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/31/great-guinness-heist-thieves-stole-truck-carrying-20000-pints

Three Castles Burning: https://threecastlesburning.libsyn.com

Save Sweny! https://www.dublinbypub.ie/misc/save-swenys/

Sweny’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/swenyspharmacy/home

The Anna Livia tattoo: https://www.facebook.com/fantinitattoo/posts/is-there-any-fans-of-james-joyce-herethis-tattoo-is-my-interpretation-of-anna-li/2668790800036198/ 

Multiple Joyce: https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/multiple_joyce/ 

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Thanks to a ringing endorsement from heroic bookcaster and comedy legend Michael Ian Black, WAKE has gone communal! That is, we've found a place to discuss the verbal maze that is The Wake. Join us at www.patreon.com/WAKEpod!

Also, listen to Obscure: https://www.patreon.com/michaelianblack/posts

This week is the total piece of work that Wagner dreamed of, with GMWKS co-creator Jordan Morille joining Toby and TJ to take on the Wake! With a baby on his hip, and delving deep into his actor's experience, Jordan popcorn-reads from the second half of 1.4, where we meet disguised ex-nuns, Dirty Daddy Pantaloons, and TJ's 'Wake' tattoo quotation. Then, we consider the gesamtkunstwerk, Dada, Sigur Rós, and the immortal question: just what is Joyce's deal?

Progress: 103 pages complete, 525 pages to go; 16.4% read.

Contextual Notes:

Grown Men Watch Kid Stuff: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gmwks/id1509334531

Jordan Morille’s plays: https://newplayexchange.org/users/2631/jordan-morille

() by Sigur Rós: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7A4qrq3lM4

Finnegans Wake 1.4: Songs at the Wake, Goats-at-Play https://www.youtube.com/playlist?app=desktop&list=PLZXLIgSsoK3lCcRObJ-QZfO_47x6j8DHq

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TJ is back, and WAKE, the podcast of the history of the future, rolls on its unstoppable way! This week, we consider just why siblings are generally awful to one another as Shaun reads Shem to filth to round out chapter 1.7. We discuss Toby's favourite bookstore (Lane Bookshop Claremont, represent!), Latin stories of bowel evacuation, the Mighty Ducks, Moby-Dick, and Alan Ayckbourn: so, in general, a normal day at the office.

This week's readers: Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 195 pages complete, 433 pages to go; 31.05% read.

Contextual Notes:

The Lane Bookshop, Claremont https://lanebook.com.au/

James Joyce: A Life, by Gabrielle Carey https://lanebook.com.au/products/james-joyce-a-life?variant=45528314642591

Joyce helping sufferers of OCD: https://www.tiktok.com/@ocdbrain/video/7125822447533837611?lang=en

ChatGPT’s translation of the Latin:

The text you provided is a highly stylized and somewhat archaic Latin passage. Here's a rough English translation:

"First, the craftsman, the high creator, to the fertile and all-powerful earth, without any shame or pardon, having taken on a rainy cloak and with his loins girded, as though born with naked buttocks, approached himself, weeping and groaning, and evacuated into his hand. Later, having relieved himself of black waste, he struck the classic horn and placed his own excrement, which he called his 'dejections,' into a vessel once honorablefor sadness, and under the invocation of the twin brothers Medard and Godard, he joyfully and sweetly poured it out, singing a psalm that begins: 'My tongue is the pen of a swift writer,' chanting with a great voice. Finally, from the vile dung, mixed with the pleasantness of the divine Orion, cooked and exposed to the cold, he made an indelible ink for himself."

This translation aims to capture the literal meaning, though the text seems to be filled with symbolic and possibly satirical elements.

Absurd Person Singular: http://absurdpersonsingular.alanayckbourn.net/

Cake eater! https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/da0a1b16-a580-4e19-b78e-4dd09ddd06c7

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After months of pondering the motivations of those who choose to take up the mantle of the Wake, and particularly those who get together with like-minded individuals to drink and read and discuss, we finally decided to get to the bottom of the phenomenon. Zoe Patterson is a PhD Candidate at Trinity College Dublin, whose doctoral studies centre on James Joyce reading groups. We talk about the varying usefulness of reading guides (which of course we here at WAKE pretend don't exist), people who jump on the "Joyce Train" halfway through the journey, how reading groups can resemble both Bible Study and Addiction meetings, and end on the earth-shattering revelation that this very podcast has now become academically relevant.

This week's chatters: Zoe Patterson, Toby Malone, TJ Young

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Welcome to WAKE, where language is king! This week we reach the thrilling conclusion of the Night Lessons episode, and get into a little bit of analysis amidst the chaos that reigns when TJ's internet drops out mid-recording. We discuss Neil's ongoing beef against Cognitive Science and the laws of language, discover the benefits to earning knowledge, and establish all the reasons we should trust Joyce. After three weeks of column-based fun, this is the satisfying conclusion you were looking for, as we spit in the eye of all those purists who said that Night Lessons would be the chapter to break us.

This week's readers: Neil Wechsler, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 308 pages complete, 320 pages to go; 49.04% read.

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The games are afoot on WAKE, but we are fortified and ready to cast our disapproving glances over the debauchery! For the second half of Chapter 2.1, we welcome genuine teenager, Cormac Malone, to start us off, before we churn our way to the door-slammiest of thunderwords yet. We consider whether reading the Wake is just like a Tough Mudder race, and whether HCE is Neo from the Matrix. Toby reveals the Irish town in which he spent New Year's Eve 1999, and we consider what it would take to require demanding a theatre curtain to "drop by deep request."

As we prepare for Night Lessons, it's all fon and gheims until sumbuddy looses an ay.

This week's readers: Cormac Malone, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 259 pages complete, 369 pages to go; 41.24% read.

Contextual Notes

Neo seeing the Matrix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-0RHqDWcJE&t=27s

Tough Mudder: the same as the Wake: https://toughmudder.com/

So Long, Farewell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy9_lfjQopU

Paddy Blue’s, the pub in Gorey Toby went to on New Year’s Eve 1999: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH66Wu1ZGHU

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It's a milestone episode of WAKE, as we sail past the halfway point on an auspicious anniversary day for Toby. TJ is out sick this week, so we checked our list of dream interim co-hosts and came up with a winner: Toby's brilliant former dramaturgy student, K'hari Constantine! Toby and K'hari dive into the first part of Tales at the Inn, with the detailed story of the Norwegian Captain, and along the way consider how the Wake sounds in a sheriff's drawl, why it's important to let your tongue taste the words, how the text fits into the greater macrocosm, and, of course, why Joyce just isn't that into you.

This week's readers: K'hari Constantine, Toby Malone

Progress: 332 pages complete, 296 pages to go; 52.87% read.

Contextual Notes

K’hari on Voices.com:  https://www.voices.com/profile/khariconstantine

K’hari on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khari-constantine-370719238/

The BookTok girl: https://x.com/ineffablestring/status/1825021537667178588

TikToker sparks debate after asking why book ‘has so many words on the page’ (The Independent): https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/booktok-books-tiktok-debate-yannareads-b2598776.html

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Hray! This week TJ's fiancé Taylor Hoover joins us to close down the bar, avoid the insults, and drink up all the dregs left over! Find out just what disqualifies one from becoming a limousine lady, the logistics behind transcribing crowd noise, and the relationship between Joyce, Charles Marowitz, and Tron: Legacy. Don't hide, seek this week's episode of WAKE!

(Apologies for the sound quality on Toby's mic, it's an ongoing problem that will be fixed)

This week's readers: Taylor Hoover, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 382 pages complete, 246 pages to go; 60.83% read.

Contextual Notes

Tron Legacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron:_Legacy

In the Buginning is the Woid: Bartholomew Ryan and the Loafing Heroes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlVcmM2DUJ0

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I hope you have your alarm set, because the dreamer is stirring! Toby and TJ welcome old friend Jason Rothery--acclaimed playwright, novelist, and fellow theatre survivor--to to help us read 3.4: 'Dawn.' In typical incisive form, Jason unleashes insight and enthusiasm as James Joyce acquires himself a brand new fan. From considerations of Finnegans Wake comprehension akin to the Suzuki method of music instruction, to the Jabberwocky, the Marx Brothers, and André 3000's flute album, no topic is off limits, as we skim the surface, ponder translation, and think about how Joyce teaches us to "mean differently."

This week's readers: Toby Malone, TJ Young, Jason Rothery

Progress: 572 pages complete, 56 pages to go; 91.08% read.

Contextual Notes

Jason Rothery online: https://jasonpatrickrothery.com/

Privilege: https://www.amazon.ca/Privilege-Jason-Patrick-Rothery/dp/1773370227/

Reg: https://www.amazon.ca/REG-Jason-Patrick-Rothery/dp/B0DJK3QPLB/Jason on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasonpatrickrothery/ The Jabberwocky: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky FWEET: Finnegans Wake Extensible Elucidation Treasury: http://www.fweet.org/

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WAKE rolls on like so many thunderwords, as we explore the first part of Chapter 1.2 of Finnegans Wake. We consider the slanders heaped on poor old HCE (Here Comes Everybody), tiptoe around racially problematic language, and ponder whether speedcasting Joyce on a treadmill is an incentive for cardiac health.

This week's readers: Toby Malone

Progress: 44 pages complete, 584 pages to go; 7% read.

Contextual Notes:

On Thunderwords: https://www.finnegansweb.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Thunderwords

https://hatterscabinet.com/pages-fw/fwtheme-thunderwords.html

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For this week's perzacto episode, we are joined by world-changing director and all-round delight Aili Huber, as we consider the first half of the least user-friendly quiz in literary history. We have our first ever tap-out (it's easy to get lost on the page if your eye wanders), consider Dr Seuss, the gish gallop, and e.e. cummings, before we bring it all home by considering how Finnegans Wake might fit within the parameters of Aili and Toby's 2021 book Cutting Plays for Performance. In short: don't know; none; infinity.

This week's readers: Aili Huber, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 148 pages complete, 480 pages to go; 23.57% read.

Contextual Notes

Aili Huber’s website: https://ailihuber.com/

Silk Moth Stage: https://silkmothstage.com/

Cutting Plays for Performance: https://cuttingplays.com/

Aili on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nilatti/

Silk Moth Stage on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/silkmothstage/

Cutting Plays on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cuttingplays/

My Father Moved Through Dooms of Love, by e.e. cummings: https://poets.org/poem/my-father-moved-through-dooms-love

Heather Cox Richardson and the Gish Gallop: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-27-2024

The Universal Language, by David Ives: https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=33

Finnegans Wake, A Dream Play, by Craig Walker: https://pwcenter.org/play-profile/finnegans-wake-dream-play

The Ballad of Finnegans Wake, by Craig Walker: https://soundcloud.com/craig-walker-514428032/ballad-of-finnegans-wake

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If sleep is the panacea of all ills, WAKE has found the very experts who can tell you exactly why that’s the case! On this week’s special bonus episode, Toby and TJ welcome internationally renowned neuroscientists, Professors Adrian Peyrache and Arjun Krishnaswamy, to talk about what’s going on inside our brains while we sleep. In an episode that’s part TED Talk and part HCE Talk, we break down insights into the sleeping brain, including how memory relies on good sleep hygiene, sleep paralysis, brain compasses, real-time dreaming, and how mice dream of mazes. We hear Adrien’s critique of the science of ‘Inception,’ position the Wake as the first-ever Large Language Model, and finally gain definitive proof of who the dreamer is. Oh, and with a whole section on erotic dream-infused cave paintings, this is a discussion that will definitely not put you to sleep. 

This week's chatters: Adrien Peyrache, Arjun Krishnaswamy, Toby Malone, TJ Young

References

Adrien’s bio: https://www.mcgill.ca/neurology-neurosurgery/adrien-peyrache-phd 

Adrien’s lab: https://www.peyrachelab.com/research

Arjun’s bio: https://www.mcgill.ca/physiology/directory/core-faculty/arjun-krishnaswamy 

Arjun’s lab: https://www.swamylab.com/ 

Sleep’s Hidden Superpower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbpidNKc5cw

What a Sleep Specialist Has to Say About the Dreaminess of Finnegans Wake https://lithub.com/what-a-sleep-specialist-has-to-say-about-the-dreaminess-of-finnegans-wake/

Joyce’s Book of the Dark, John Bishop: https://archive.org/details/joycesbookofdark00bish 

The Nighttime madness of “Finnegans Wake” https://argumentativeoldgit.wordpress.com/2021/10/13/the-nighttime-madness-of-finnegans-wake/ 

The Bluesky account recreating the Wake on LLMs

https://bsky.app/profile/funferall.bsky.social 

The Lascaux cave painting of a dream (including the erection)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Naturewasmetal/comments/fct360/lascaux_cave_painting_depicts_a_hunter_getting/#lightbox 

Stan Carey’s Putting language to sleep in Finnegans Wake

https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/putting-language-to-sleep-in-finnegans-wake/

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Peter O’Brien is an artist, a visionary, and a life-long Joycean, with the energy to not only dream up one major Finnegans Wake-centric artistic offshoot, but is busy scheming about how to top it. We first became aware of Peter as a brilliant artist, using “letterism” to artistically annotate the pages of Finnegans Wake. Exhibited around the world and widely published, most would be satisfied with that: but not Peter, who is now pouring his unmatched attention into a new opera despite (by his own admission) knowing little about music. Join us on this fascinatingly palimpsestuous discussion that touches on the nature of genius, memorisation, Glenn Gould, Virgil, nudity, and Wagner, and shows us that you may think you can be finished with the Wake, but it’s never really finished with you.

This week's chatters: Peter O’Brien, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Contextual Notes

Peter’s Wake-inspired art: https://www.peterobrienart.com/about.html

Limited edition Wake prints: https://www.peterobrienart.com/store/c2/LOFWFW_-_LIMITED_EDITION.html 

Peter’s Globe and Mail article on his art: https://tpob.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/obrien-on-lofwfw-in-globe-and-mail-5.pdf 

O'Brien, P. (2018). Drawing Upon Finnegans Wake. Art/Research/International:/A/Transdisciplinary/Journal, 3(2), 196–215. https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29381 

Pitch deck for Plurabelle: https://tpob.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/p-l-u-r-a-b-e-l-l-e-pitch-27-oct-2023.pdf 

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What happens when you put an erudite Canadian-Australian in a room with a verbose Australian-Canadian? This week, as TJ suffers through a department meeting at work, Seth Austin of the "hold my beer" W.A.S.T.E Mailing List joins Toby to take on the maelstrom that is HCE's defensiveness masking desperation. With perspectives on Giambattista Vico, father-son power struggles, and Oedipus Rex, we allow ourselves to be surprised by the text, where turnintaxis pop up where you least expect them.

This week's readers: Toby Malone, Seth Austin

Contextual Notes

W.A.S.T.E Mailing List on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wastemailinglist/

W.A.S.T.E Mailing List on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6TqI_9Rj0jWXsAGTnNmodw W.A.S.T.E Mailing List on Substack: https://wastemailinglist.substack.com/

W.A.S.T.E Mailing List on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5miLzV90JolgEsfCudyMU2

Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2794.The_Crying_of_Lot_49 Vico’s New Science: https://fpa2014.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/vico-the-new-science.pdf

Finnegans Wake: untangling its histories of humans, the animal world and the environment in the Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2024/12/16/finnegans-wake-untangling-its-histories-of-humans-the-animal-world-and-the-environment/

Richard Ellmann: James Joyce, New York,1959,1982.

On Ellmann: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/09/specials/joyce-ellmann.html

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Often, when you show the Wake to an uninitiated reader, the first reaction will be “that’s weird.” Today we embrace the weird and lean into the unconventional, with a delightful, insightful chat with the overseer of the Weirdoverse, Bobby Campbell. For this bonus non-reading episode, we discuss the major role of Robert Anton Wilson in Joyce culture, psychedelics, language creation as class warfare, and ponder the questions over whether the Wake is written in English, whether Joyce had syphilis, whether Joyce was psychic, and whether Joseph Campbell was citing his insider sources. As we consider the mile-long Alka-Seltzer tablet that is the Wake, we settle on questions of the work’s place as a sacred text, whether Modernism remains unsolved, and gather our courage to brave the intimidating but friendly purists on Reddit.

This week's chatters: Bobby Campbell, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Contextual Notes

Robert Anton Wilson: https://nocturnalrevelries.com/2018/07/23/robert-anton-wilson-the-last-great-irish-modernist/

Maybe Night: https://www.maybeday.net/night/

https://www.maybeday.net/night/WTF.html

r/JamesJoyce: https://www.reddit.com/r/jamesjoyce/ 

r/WAKEpod!: https://www.reddit.com/r/WAKEpod/ 

Linda Lotiel’s Mind Maps: https://www.maybeday.net/night/mind_maps.html 

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We would never consider ourselves mooks, nor would we gripe about the task in front of us, but finishing 1.6's Quiz (along with the needlessly complicated tale of the Mookse and Gripes) made us wonder whether Joyce might learn a little from Sad Girl Lit. We get a call from the other side of the planet and welcome Toby's hugely accomplished arts administrator sister, Georgia Malone, to talk about the book that "everyone owns and no one reads", the use of Joyce as a medal of honour among moody young blokes, and lay out our credentials for the knowledge of useless facts. Georgia gives us a refreshing take on how best to enjoy WAKE (come for the preamble, skip the Joyce bit), calls Joyce a wanker, and considers the place of Australian accents, Aesop, and Magic Eye pictures in understanding the work.

This week's readers: Georgia Malone, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 168 pages complete, 460 pages to go; 26.75% read.

Contextual Notes

Commentary on Wyndham Lewis’s Time and the Western Man: https://campuspress.yale.edu/modernismlab/time-and-western-man/

The Mookse and the Gripes from The Suspended Sentence: https://thesuspendedsentence.com/2023/07/20/the-mookse-and-the-gripes-part-1/

The Mookse and the Gripes as Aesop: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41063554-the-mookse-and-the-gripes

Georgia on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/georgiathroughlife

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The purists are here! The purists are here! Toby and TJ get legit with the presence of long time lover of Joyce, a man who has read the Wake multiple times, and has used it as a major inspiration for his own work. Neil Wechsler is your favourite playwright's favourite playwright: an award-winning, cerebral, self-deprecating ball of energy who is here to show us that there are plenty of ways to be a purist. This week we read the first half of Chapter 1.5, and talk Beckett, Freud, and Albee, and discuss the pitfalls of fixating on the rabbit hole. This week's readers: Neil Wechsler, Toby Malone, TJ Young Progress: 113 pages complete, 515 pages to go; 17.99% read.

Contextual Notes

Neil Wechsler’s website: https://wechslerprojects.com/

Neil on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wechslerprojects/

Our favourite play, Grenadine: https://www.amazon.ca/Grenadine-Neil-Wechsler/dp/0300149921

Neil on New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/37010/neil-wechsler

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It's a WAKE of firsts: the first episode recorded in Australia, the first episode with two guests, and, most difficult of all, the first episode without TJ! When schedules don't mesh, there's nothing for it but to plough on, for the Wake waits for no man (or musical workshop). This week comes to us from the echoey comforts of Toby's parents' house in Perth, where Mick and Jo Malone unveil their roles as the people most responsible for getting Joyce into Toby's head. We talk sibling rivalry, Irish revolutionaries, and whether Shem has reason to be upset about his treatment. Inconvenient, David!

This week's readers: Toby Malone, Mick Malone, Jo Malone

Progress: 182 pages complete, 446 pages to go; 28.98% read.

Contextual Notes

Mick Malone online: https://www.mickmalone.com.au/

Two Ranks on the Road: https://www.mickmalone.com.au/product-page/two-ranks-on-the-road-35-years-of-australian-special-forces-service

The Secret Army (IRA):  https://www.routledge.com/The-Secret-Army-The-IRA/Bell/p/book/9781560009016

Joseph Campbell’s Skeleton Key: https://archive.org/details/skeletonkeytofin0000jose/mode/2up

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The attacks come thick and fast on HCE in this week's reading of WAKE, from court appearances to name-calling, from canoodling to gun violence, it's amazing that he's able to rest at all. This week TJ reads the palimpsest that is Finnegans Wake, along with Toby and Toby’s brilliant 12 year old daughter, Bridie Malone, as we confront our growing international audience by producing little of actual use. This week's readers: TJ Young, Toby Malone, Bridie Malone Progress: 74 pages complete, 554 pages to go; 11.78% read.

Contextual Notes

One Little Goat’s Finnegans Wake project: https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake

One Little Goat’s podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/james-joyces-finnegans-wake/id1743344183 For early drops, community and show notes, join us at our free Patreon, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/wakepod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. We welcome comments from everyone: even, nay, especially, the dreaded purists. Come and "um actually" us!

Book Two is underway at the Wake, and it's taking the voices spanning three different continents to take us there. This week Toby and TJ are joined by the delightful Brit Lucy Brazier, author of Finnegans What? Finnegans Wake - a Guide by an Idiot to discuss inappropriate sibling games, river poo, Oscar Wilde, underwear fetishes, and Francophobia. Despite her book's subtitle, Lucy is no idiot, but offers insight and humour that demonstrate the value of re-reading, even we are all left in a state of merry confusion.

This week's readers: Lucy Brazier, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 240 pages complete, 388 pages to go; 38.22% read.

Contextual Notes

Lucy Brazier’s website https://portergirl.com/

Finnegans What?: Finnegans Wake - A guide by an idiot https://www.amazon.ca/Finnegans-What-Wake-guide-idiot/dp/1092156100/

Ulysses! Sex, Soap & a Lucky Potato: (It’s Ulysses. But For Normal People)https://www.amazon.ca/Ulysses-Sex-Soap-Lucky-Potato/dp/B096LWKB43

Lucy on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/brazierlucy/

Lucy on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/@lucybrazierauthor/

Lucy on Twitter https://twitter.com/@portergirl100/

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The hundred-letter 'thunderwords' are arguably the most enduring, well-known, and mystifying feature of Finnegans Wake, jumbles of letters cobbling together words from far-flung languages to create a word salad of difficulty that seems to stand as emblematic of the overall challenges of the Wake. In this bonus episode, we spend a few minutes considering all ten thunderwords, their 1001 letters, and the insight of eminent Wake scholars including Marshall McLuhan, Eric McLuhan, and Bernard Benstock. Now that WAKE has spoken all ten thunderwords, we have mashed them all together, in case you've ever desperately wanted to hear what they all sound like, entirely butchered, in chronological order, with no breaks. What more could you want?

This week's personnel: Toby Malone

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Numerologists rejoice: WAKE has hit the master number, and to celebrate, our old pal JJ has chosen to drop the subtlety and let his freak flag fly! Leonard Cohen may have said there was a crack in everything, but we don't want to know what people would accuse HCE of doing with it. Join us to discuss the Smashing Pumpkins, one man shows, adaptation theory, Yinzers and their Jawns, hundred year old pornography, and whether or not Toby and TJ have become... gasp... purists?

This week's readers: Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 532 pages complete, 96 pages to go; 84.71% read.

Contextual Notes

Thirty-three by the Smashing Pumpkins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYSbztCCTlA

Billy Corgan’s insane podcast Thirty-Three: https://podbay.fm/p/thirty-three-with-william-patrick-corgan

That numerology page we read from: https://www.worldnumerology.com/numerology-master-numbers/master-number-33/

Jawn: https://www.allegiantgoods.co/blogs/news/jawn-definition?srsltid=AfmBOoorICuUMe0UEweSb_A1rToRcRwx2ql3WMoED3g5n0MibrCzTQr9

WAKE on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/wakepod.bsky.social

フィネガンズ・ウェイクを読む https://bsky.app/profile/finneganswake-jpn.bsky.social

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Break out Mr. Tunney the grocer’s Christmas almanac, clear your schedule for Edwin Hamilton's Christmas pantaloonade and the Christmas pantomime Sinbad the Sailor, it’s time for a twelfth night feast dance with the Morkan Sisters, with the chrism for the christmass: in other words, it’s the WAKE Christmas episode! As we take a break on the reading for the holiday period, Toby spends a little bit of time considering how James Joyce approached Christmas in all four of his major works, through the eyes of wistful schoolboys, red-faced drunken uncles, dreamers and roamers, with quaintly underwhelming gifts, half-hearted sobriety pledges, and epiphanies on mortality. Happy holidays from everyone at WAKE: we hope you get your holly and ivy for him and for Christmas!

This week's chatters: Toby Malone

References

Peter Chrisp: https://peterchrisp.blogspot.com/2022/12/james-joyces-christmas-eve-1904.html 

Mark Wallace: https://thevictoriansage.wordpress.com/2023/12/21/james-joyce-at-christmas-the-dead-1913/

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We can't believe it. Can you believe it? We actually finished reading Finnegans Wake. What started out as a podcast to read an "unreadable book" has turned into a journey that has endeared us to a magical community, connected with our family and friends, and reawakened our sense of what art can be. While sometimes it felt like climbing a sheer cliff-face, the toeholds we gained along the way made this a delightfully fulfilling project. For this final episode, Toby and TJ look back on WAKE and consider how you know when a project is over, embracing confusion, and how much we appreciate the spectators at the end of a marathon. We talk Joyce on film, Pinter, the Beatles, Lord of the Rings, and hypertexts, and pinpoint the exact moment the Harry Potter franchise lost TJ. We take on translation, and gimmicks, and mountaineering, and the question of how-fast-is-too-fast-to-read-the-Wake. Then, as we consider the stadium-sized Rubik's Cube that is the Wake, we are visited by the Patron Saint of WAKE for words of congratulations. It's an unmissable end to what has indeed proven to be a surprisingly listenable podcast.

This week's chatters: Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 628 pages complete, 0 pages to go; 100% read.

Contextual Notes

The Patron Saint of WAKE

Michael Ian Black congratulates WAKE!

Michael Ian Black Substack

Referenced Texts

Fadiman, Clifton. “Don’t Shoot the Book-Reviewer; He’s Doing the Best He Can.” The New Yorker. April 28, 1939.

Norris, David, and Carl Flint.  Introducing Joyce: A Graphic Guide. London: Icon Books, 2013.

McCreedy, Jonathan. (2022). Joyceradamus: Foretelling the Age of Trump in Finnegans Wake. Joyce Studies in Italy: Joyspace: James Joyce and Space, 23 (2021): 159-74.

Rose, David. Cryptogrammic Cryptograms: Fungi in Finnegans Wake.

Collard, David. Multiple Joyce. London: Sagging Meniscus P, 2022.

Glasheen, Adaline. Third census of Finnegans wake : an index of the characters and their roles.

Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1977.

Benstock, Bernard. Joyce-Again’s Wake.

Turnbull, Caldwell. No Gods, No Monsters.

Wake in the World

Finnegan Wake!

Mirko Buffini’s HCE Collection

Hoyne Brewing: Finnegans Irish Stout

Translating the Wake

Reading James Joyce's Finnegans Wake in Korean by Sang Hyun Lee 187

Dai, Congrong. "A Chinese Translation of Finnegans Wake: The Work in Progress." James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 47 no. 4, 2010, p. 579-588. Project MUSE

Nothing’s Impossible: Finnegans Wake Translated into Chinese.

Eishiro, Ito. Two Japanese Translations of Finnegans Wake Compared: Yanase (1991-1993) and Miyata (2004)

Kenji Hayakawa.

Francois-Victor Hugo’s Shakespeare:

Joyce on Film

Roger Ebert on Bute’s Wake film

Bute’s Film

Strick’s Ulysses

The Film

Resources

FinWake.com

FWEET

Peter Quadrino’s Blog

Chicken’s Guide

Buffalo James Joyce Collection

Richard Harte

Peter O’Brien

Reading Groups:

https://finneganswake.org/ReadingGroups.shtml 

Podcasts

Frank Delaney’s Re-Joyce:

Joseph Strick’s Ulysses on Three Castles Burning

1954: The Birth of Bloomsday on Three Castles Burning: https://threecastlesburning.libsyn.com/1954-the-birth-of-bloomsday

Exploring Lucia Joyce (with Joe Chester) on Three Castles Burning: https://threecastlesburning.libsyn.com/exploring-lucia-joyce-with-joe-chester

WAKE

To find TJ: https://www.tj-young.com/ 

To find Toby: https://linktr.ee/turglife 

WAKE on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wake.pod/ 

WAKE on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/WAKEPOD 

WAKE on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WAKEpod 

WAKE on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/wakepod.bsky.social 

WAKE on X: lol, fuck you Elon

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There are few things more synonymous with Ireland as a creamy, rich pint of Guinness. Plenty of time has been spent on James Joyce’s relationship with the black stuff, yet few have really considered just how much of a role Guinness plays in Finnegans Wake. Through dozens of allusions, references, and cunning puns, the pride of St. James’s Gate bears out an outsized presence through the dream-life of HC Earwicker, and for this special New Years Eve episode, Toby and TJ take a break from reading the Wake to clean a glass, pour to the harp, let it settle, top it off, then try to split the G. Our hearts are full, and our glasses are too: let’s raise a glass to Joyce, the Wake, and a potential future Guinness sponsorship for the podcast! Sláinte!  

This week’s readers: Toby Malone, TJ Young

References:

FWEET: http://www.fweet.org/cgi-bin/fw_grep.cgi?srch=guinness&cake=&icase=1&accent=1&beauty=1&hilight=1&escope=1&rscope=1&dist=4&ndist=4&fontsz=100&shorth=0 

Peter Chrisp on Joyce and Guinness: https://peterchrisp.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-frothy-freshener-james-joyces.html 

Dannen, Catherine Gubernatis. “The Facts and Fiction Behind ‘the Free, the Flow, the Frothy Freshener’: The Guinness Company and the Story of Joyce’s Lost Ad.” James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 4, 2011, pp. 711–26. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24598886. Accessed 20 Dec. 2024.

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The WAKE reading begins in earnest, with the first half of chapter 1! Join Toby and TJ as we discuss thunder, museyrooms, and Joyce casually dropping poetic gems on the first page.

This week's readers: Toby Malone

Progress: 16 pages complete, 612 pages to go; 2.55% read.

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Richard Harte is one of the world's preeminent interpreters of Joyce: a 25 year veteran of Bloomsday performances, and the undisputed star of One Little Goat Theatre Company's parallel (not competing) Finnegans Wake podcast, currently under development as a film and exhaustive live chronicle of the Earwicker clan. When Toby joined the audience to watch his old friend Richard perform 1.5 of the Wake at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library last week, he knew we had to get Richard on to talk about the Wake: and talk he did! In this joyful bonus episode, hear all about how many times Richard has read the Wake (the answer may surprise you!), the spiritual feeling of walking the Dublin locations of the book, the logistics of preparing the live readings, and plans for the future. It's a crossover episode, and we couldn't be happier to have Richard along with us.

This week's personnel: Richard Harte, TJ Young, Toby Malone

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There's nothing quite like ticking off a bucket list item, and today is the day, where Toby and TJ come to the end of the long reading road to finally finish Finnegans Wake. Before we get there, though, we have superstar guest Neil Wechsler to guide us through his favourite section of the book, along with passionate opinions on Hollywood hypocrisy, problematic shortcuts, and how the unique structure of the Wake is not a joke, nor a gimmick, but in fact proof that the human race is not entirely doomed. Joyce gives us an ending that's worth the wait, and feels well earned, as the pain of the cycle ends in a note of hope. We may have finished with the Wake, but we have a feeling it's not quite finished with us yet.

This week's readers: Neil Wechsler, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 628 pages complete, 0 pages to go; 100% read.

Contextual Notes

James Joyce Collection at the University at Buffalo: https://library.buffalo.edu/jamesjoyce/

The Wake at the UB collection: https://library.buffalo.edu/jamesjoyce/catalog/vi-finnegans-wake/

A proposed JJ museum through the Buffalo collection: https://library.buffalo.edu/jamesjoyce/pdf/james-joyce-museum.pdf 

Joyce-again's wake: An analysis of Finnegans wake, Bernard Benstock: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/331509.Joyce_again_s_wake 

A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake, William York Tindall: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59480.A_Reader_s_Guide_to_Finnegans_Wake 

Jeffrey Jarome Cohen: Monster Culture: Seven Theses: https://ptfaculty.gordonstate.edu/rscoggins/Cohen,%20Monster%20Culture%20(Seven%20Theses),%203-20.pdf 

Sorry Finn https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/finn-fordham 

Benstock, Bernard. Joyce Again’s Wake. https://www.loc.gov/item/65023908/

Neil Wechsler’s website: https://wechslerprojects.com/

Neil on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wechslerprojects/

Our favourite play, Grenadine: https://www.amazon.ca/Grenadine-Neil-Wechsler/dp/0300149921

Neil on New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/37010/neil-wechsler

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WAKE is a cold reading of Joyce's Finnegans Wake, just because. Today, in a preamble episode, we start by unravelling some of the history of the book, before the reading starts.

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