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  • Episode 40: Finishing WAKE

    Episode 40: Finishing WAKE
    2025/04/23
    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 YoungProgress: 628 pages complete, 0 pages to go; 100% read.Contextual NotesThe Patron Saint of WAKEMichael Ian Black congratulates WAKE! Michael Ian Black SubstackReferenced TextsFadiman, 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 WorldFinnegan Wake! Mirko Buffini’s HCE CollectionHoyne Brewing: Finnegans Irish Stout Translating the WakeReading James Joyce's Finnegans Wake in Korean by Sang Hyun Lee 187Dai, Congrong. "A Chinese Translation of Finnegans Wake: The Work in Progress." James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 47 no. 4, 2010, p. 579-588. Project MUSENothing’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 FilmRoger Ebert on Bute’s Wake filmBute’s FilmStrick’s UlyssesThe FilmResourcesFinWake.comFWEETPeter Quadrino’s BlogChicken’s GuideBuffalo James Joyce CollectionRichard HartePeter O’Brien Reading Groups:https://finneganswake.org/ReadingGroups.shtml PodcastsFrank Delaney’s Re-Joyce:Joseph Strick’s Ulysses on Three Castles Burning1954: The Birth of Bloomsday on Three Castles Burning: https://threecastlesburning.libsyn.com/1954-the-birth-of-bloomsdayExploring Lucia Joyce (with Joe Chester) on Three Castles Burning: https://threecastlesburning.libsyn.com/exploring-lucia-joyce-with-joe-chesterWAKETo 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 ElonFor early drops, community and show notes, join us at our free Patreon, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/wakepod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or check out our Linktree, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/wake.pod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. We welcome comments from everyone: even, nay, especially, the dreaded purists. Come and "um actually" us!
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    1 時間 43 分
  • Episode 39: 4.1 (Part 2), p613-628

    Episode 39: 4.1 (Part 2), p613-628
    2025/04/16
    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 YoungProgress: 628 pages complete, 0 pages to go; 100% read.Contextual NotesJames 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/0300149921Neil on New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/37010/neil-wechslerFor early drops, community and show notes, join us at our free Patreon, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/wakepod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or check out our Linktree, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/wake.pod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. We welcome comments from everyone: even, nay, especially, the dreaded purists. Come and "um actually" us!
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    1 時間 51 分
  • Bonus: WAKE: The Album with Tommy Mackay

    Bonus: WAKE: The Album with Tommy Mackay
    2025/04/09
    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 YoungReferencesWAKE: 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, 2025Clips 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 reservedFinnegan'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/finneganswakeWake 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.''The Ballad Of Persse O'Reilly 06:31. performed by Meg Logue from the Wake podcast.Thunderwords 01:58. read by Adam Harvey, Joyce Geek - joycegeek.com/thundervideos/ Music - Thunderbirds theme tuneTip It! 04:37. performed by Richard Harte from the One Little Goat theatre company production. Backing track - 'Whip It!' by Devo.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 CometsThunderslog 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.Cunstuntonoplies 02:48. read by Patrick Horgan, 1985. Music - 'Istanbul Not Constantinople' by They Might Be Giants.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.Respectable 03:20. Seth Austin from the Wake podcast. Music - 'Respectable' by Mel and Kim.Suck It Yourself, Sugarstick! 03:48. Toby Malone, Sarah Kane from the Wake podcast. Music - 'Suck It And See' by Arctic Monkeys.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 ALPOlwen 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. For early drops, community and show notes, join us at our free Patreon, at⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/wakepod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or check out our Linktree, at⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/wake.pod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. We welcome comments from everyone: even, nay, especially, the dreaded purists. Come and "um actually" us!
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  • Episode 38: 4.1 (Part 1), p593-613

    Episode 38: 4.1 (Part 1), p593-613
    2025/04/02
    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 YoungProgress: 613 pages complete, 15 pages to go; 97.61% read.Contextual NotesBrancusi’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=5DMndH8QiI4If 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 For early drops, community and show notes, join us at our free Patreon, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/wakepod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or check out our Linktree, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/wake.pod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. We welcome comments from everyone: even, nay, especially, the dreaded purists. Come and "um actually" us!
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    2 時間 7 分
  • Bonus: Professors Adrien Peyrache and Arjun Krishnaswamy on Wake and the Sleeping Brain

    Bonus: Professors Adrien Peyrache and Arjun Krishnaswamy on Wake and the Sleeping Brain
    2025/03/26
    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 YoungReferencesAdrien’s bio: https://www.mcgill.ca/neurology-neurosurgery/adrien-peyrache-phd Adrien’s lab: https://www.peyrachelab.com/researchArjun’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=CbpidNKc5cwWhat 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 LLMshttps://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 Wakehttps://stancarey.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/putting-language-to-sleep-in-finnegans-wake/For early drops, community and show notes, join us at our free Patreon, at⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/wakepod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or check out our Linktree, at⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/wake.pod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. We welcome comments from everyone: even, nay, especially, the dreaded purists. Come and "um actually" us!
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  • Bonus: Fionnán O’Connor on Whiskey and the Wake (or, Jamessan’s Slake)

    Bonus: Fionnán O’Connor on Whiskey and the Wake (or, Jamessan’s Slake)
    2025/03/17

    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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    1 時間 28 分
  • Bonus: Igor Belokrinitsky and the Ukrainian Wake in Progress Reading Group

    Bonus: Igor Belokrinitsky and the Ukrainian Wake in Progress Reading Group
    2025/03/12

    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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  • Bonus: Neal Kosaly-Meyer and Memorising the Wake

    Bonus: Neal Kosaly-Meyer and Memorising the Wake
    2025/03/05

    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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