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

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• 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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