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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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    1 時間 11 分
  • 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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    1 時間 1 分
  • 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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    1 時間 10 分
  • Bonus: Peter O'Brien and Wake-inspired Art

    Bonus: Peter O'Brien and Wake-inspired Art
    2025/02/26

    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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    1 時間 15 分
  • Episode 37: Book Three Recap

    Episode 37: Book Three Recap
    2025/02/19
    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 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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    1 時間 29 分
  • Episode 36: 3.4 (Part 2), p572-590

    Episode 36: 3.4 (Part 2), p572-590
    2025/02/12

    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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    1 時間 59 分