WAKE: Cold Reading Finnegans Wake

Vince Gilligan called, and WAKE answered! Toby and TJ are back for this special episode of WAKE, in response to the casual name-dropping of Finnegans Wake in the new Apple+ series, Pluribus. We spend some spoiler-filled time (spoiling the ending of both Pluribus AND Finnegans Wake) discussing this definitely-too-deliberate-to-be-accidental reference to Joyce’s final masterpiece, and what it might mean for the show as a whole. We’re talking falls, and loops, and morals, and humanity: all the things you’ve come to love about WAKE.SHOW NOTES:WAKE on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WAKEpod GMWKS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gmwks/id1509334531 Georgia Malone’s Here Goes Nothing: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/georgia-malones-here-goes-nothing/id1794562157 Never Die Wondering: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/never-die-wondering-mick-malone-in-his-own-words/id1833715593 Abraham’s Tetramorfeus: https://www.facebook.com/abrahamhosebr/posts/tetramorfeus/658179911649980/Abraham on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/uk/book/show/236604119-liber-t Abraham's Joyce writings: https://abrahamhosebrlibrarium.wordpress.com/category/%d0%b4%d0%b6%d0%b5%d0%b9%d0%bc%d1%81-%d0%b4%d0%b6%d0%be%d0%b9%d1%81/Pluribus: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22202452/The Suspended Sentence: https://thesuspendedsentence.com/2026/01/25/its-plurbin-time-pluribus-and-finnegans-wake/ The Wake and Pluribus: https://www.soapcentral.com/shows/all-mankind-becomes-united-pluribus-fans-convinced-show-takes-inspiration-classic-novel-finnegans-wakeReddit Thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/pluribustv/comments/1oxo1dv/finnegans_wake/ Reddit Thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/jamesjoyce/comments/1or08bk/anyone_watch_pluribus/ Katarzyna Bazarnik’s JOYCE, LIBERATURE AND WRITING OF THE BOOK (diagram toward the bottom): http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz/archives/v8_2/main/essays.php?essay=bazarnik Portergirl Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-portergirl-podcast/id1822951117

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!

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!

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!

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 YoungContextual NotesA 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 hueHeld a rather peculiar viewThat his fire departmentCould rob our apartmentWhich 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.comLinda's mind maps can be seen at maybeday.net/night/mind_maps.htmlThe Mind Map Linda made for the reading that Toby joined! https://bsky.app/profile/wake-in-progress.bsky.social/post/3limtxbb65k2yThe puzzles from Toby’s episode: https://bsky.app/profile/wake-in-progress.bsky.social/post/3liabhj3jzk2xEpisode 22 with Bobby Campbell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSNs9hcLTl4 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!

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 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!

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/ 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!

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/ 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!

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 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!

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. 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!

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 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!

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 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!

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/ 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!