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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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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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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