WAKE buys you a third round and settles in for yet another Tale at the Inn, where we prominently feature multiple guns, KC Jowls and the little-known horror film Coach with the Six Insides. We bid welcome to another of Toby's former students, Ryan Benson Smith, for a lively discussion that includes a Wake-Ramones mashup, the Bluey theme song, and how media romanticises the Irish. Along the way, we enjoy a sparkling reading with the growing knowledge that everyone we're reading about is going to have a terrible headache tomorrow.

This week's readers: Ryan Benson Smith, TJ Young, Toby Malone

Progress: 370 pages complete, 258 pages to go; 58.92% read.

Contextual Notes

Tommy Mackay’s Finnegans Dreams: Ramones and Joyce project:

https://variousartists11.bandcamp.com/track/dont-go-earwicker 

Thunderwords are Go! https://www.dailyreckless.com/2024/09/16/thunderwords/

Space Pirates of Planet Penzance: https://dgarverick78.wixsite.com/spacepiratespenzance

NYC Book Hoes Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-hoes-podcast/id1728444763

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As the whiskey and Guinness flow, the Tales at the Inn get all the more outlandish, Taff and Butt get out of hand, and a Russian general cops it. This week in WAKE, we geek out about geeking out with Carly Derderian, consider whether Thornton Wilder cribbed The Skin of Our Teeth from Finnegans Wake, relax our mouths enough to speak like a Newfoundlander and unlock the meaning of the language of the Beatles. And TJ is back!

This week's readers: Carly Derderian, TJ Young, Toby Malone

Progress: 354 pages complete, 274 pages to go; 52.87% read.

Contextual Notes

Nowe the Lost, streaming on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/nowe_the_lost

Carly on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carlyann_dee/

Gontarski, S.E. “Wilder’s Joyce: Inspiration, Borrowing, Appropriation, Plagiarism.” ABEI Journal – The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, v. 25, n. 1, 2023, pp. 29-46.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373008972_Wilder's_Joyce_Inspiration_Borrowing_Appropriation_Plagiarism

Gibbs, Walcott. Finnegans Teeth, The New Yorker. https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1942-12-26/flipbook/034/

Campbell, Joseph, and Henry Morton Robinson. "The Skin of Whose Teeth? The Strange Case of Mr. Wilder's New Play and Finnegans Wake". The Saturday Review. December 19, 1942. No link.

Come Together! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45cYwDMibGo

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It's a milestone episode of WAKE, as we sail past the halfway point on an auspicious anniversary day for Toby. TJ is out sick this week, so we checked our list of dream interim co-hosts and came up with a winner: Toby's brilliant former dramaturgy student, K'hari Constantine! Toby and K'hari dive into the first part of Tales at the Inn, with the detailed story of the Norwegian Captain, and along the way consider how the Wake sounds in a sheriff's drawl, why it's important to let your tongue taste the words, how the text fits into the greater macrocosm, and, of course, why Joyce just isn't that into you.

This week's readers: K'hari Constantine, Toby Malone

Progress: 332 pages complete, 296 pages to go; 52.87% read.

Contextual Notes

K’hari on Voices.com:  https://www.voices.com/profile/khariconstantine

K’hari on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khari-constantine-370719238/

The BookTok girl: https://x.com/ineffablestring/status/1825021537667178588

TikToker sparks debate after asking why book ‘has so many words on the page’ (The Independent): https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/booktok-books-tiktok-debate-yannareads-b2598776.html

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Welcome to WAKE, where language is king! This week we reach the thrilling conclusion of the Night Lessons episode, and get into a little bit of analysis amidst the chaos that reigns when TJ's internet drops out mid-recording. We discuss Neil's ongoing beef against Cognitive Science and the laws of language, discover the benefits to earning knowledge, and establish all the reasons we should trust Joyce. After three weeks of column-based fun, this is the satisfying conclusion you were looking for, as we spit in the eye of all those purists who said that Night Lessons would be the chapter to break us.

This week's readers: Neil Wechsler, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 308 pages complete, 320 pages to go; 49.04% read.

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Just like a well-ordered barndance, Toby, TJ, and Neil shuffle one step the right to find new dance partners, with all new takes on the mighty columns of Night Lessons! With footnotes that would make David Foster Wallace blush, Latin, French, and a parenthetical that spans five entire pages, Joyce is really making us work this week. Come sit in the back of the classroom, keep your spitballs to yourself, and try not to carve anything into the desks.

This week's readers: Neil Wechsler, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 292 pages complete, 336 pages to go; 46.5% read.

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Grab your notebooks and start practicing your filthiest marginalia, it's Night Lessons time! When confronted with the most logistically challenging chapter of the Wake (columns! footnotes! diagrams! marginalia!), Toby and TJ sent out the Neil-Signal, and brought in our favourite purist-in-the-nicest sense, Neil Wechsler, to establish order. In this first part of three episodes reading this complex chapter, Toby, TJ and Neil inhabit the schooldesks of Shem, Shaun, and Issy, and have some fun navigating the minutiae.

This week's readers: Neil Wechsler, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 277 pages complete, 351 pages to go; 44.11% read.

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The games are afoot on WAKE, but we are fortified and ready to cast our disapproving glances over the debauchery! For the second half of Chapter 2.1, we welcome genuine teenager, Cormac Malone, to start us off, before we churn our way to the door-slammiest of thunderwords yet. We consider whether reading the Wake is just like a Tough Mudder race, and whether HCE is Neo from the Matrix. Toby reveals the Irish town in which he spent New Year's Eve 1999, and we consider what it would take to require demanding a theatre curtain to "drop by deep request."

As we prepare for Night Lessons, it's all fon and gheims until sumbuddy looses an ay.

This week's readers: Cormac Malone, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 259 pages complete, 369 pages to go; 41.24% read.

Contextual Notes

Neo seeing the Matrix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-0RHqDWcJE&t=27s

Tough Mudder: the same as the Wake: https://toughmudder.com/

So Long, Farewell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy9_lfjQopU

Paddy Blue’s, the pub in Gorey Toby went to on New Year’s Eve 1999: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH66Wu1ZGHU

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Book Two is underway at the Wake, and it's taking the voices spanning three different continents to take us there. This week Toby and TJ are joined by the delightful Brit Lucy Brazier, author of Finnegans What? Finnegans Wake - a Guide by an Idiot to discuss inappropriate sibling games, river poo, Oscar Wilde, underwear fetishes, and Francophobia. Despite her book's subtitle, Lucy is no idiot, but offers insight and humour that demonstrate the value of re-reading, even we are all left in a state of merry confusion.

This week's readers: Lucy Brazier, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 240 pages complete, 388 pages to go; 38.22% read.

Contextual Notes

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/

Ulysses! Sex, Soap & a Lucky Potato: (It’s Ulysses. But For Normal People)https://www.amazon.ca/Ulysses-Sex-Soap-Lucky-Potato/dp/B096LWKB43

Lucy on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/brazierlucy/

Lucy on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/@lucybrazierauthor/

Lucy on Twitter https://twitter.com/@portergirl100/

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We pause the reading of the Wake this week to look back on Book One: HCE, ALP, Shaun, Shem and Izzy have led us on a wild, rumour-filled ride, and we want to process that before we move on! In a free-wheeling conversation, we consider Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812, theatre riots, The Magus, Beowulf, the prophetic dream lucidity of Buffy Summers, Cain's Jawbone, I Think You Should Leave, and The Midnight Gospel's Dada roots. Come for the typical lack of analytical depth, stay for the soon-to-be-regretted promise that the podcast will culminate not only with tattoos, but with a stage adaptation about TJ's hero, Festy King.

This week's chatters: Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 216 pages complete, 412 pages to go; 34.39% read.

Contextual Notes

Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hvCd41o7Bs

The Magus and its variations https://www.goodreads.com/questions/464864-has-anyone-here-read-the-original-version

Cain’s Jawbone https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/12/26/solving-cains-jawbone-murder-mystery/

I’m Thinking of Ending Things https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80211559

I Think You Should Leave https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80986854

The Midnight Gospel https://www.netflix.com/title/80987903

Playboy Riots https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/sep/23/playboy-western-world-old-vic

Rite Riots https://www.classicfm.com/composers/stravinsky/news/rite-and-the-riot/

Ubu Riots https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/08/an-inglorious-slop-pail-of-a-play/

The Lady of Shalott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_of_Shalott_(painting)

Let James Joyce Jazz up your Vocabulary! https://www.amazon.ca/Finnegans-Wake-Lextionary-James-bulary/dp/146358945X

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It's the most watery episode of WAKE so far, as we cruise past the 1/3 complete mark and tackle the legendary 1.8: "Anna Livia." Toby takes hubris to a whole new level by attempting to read the entire chapter, cold, without breaks, or assistance, as TJ furiously circles all of the river-name puns. We discuss remarkably knowledgeable washerwomen, the fine line between gossip and mythology, how Joyce would react to ChatGPT, and get to hear the voice of the man himself.

Water you waiting for? Dive in!

This week's readers: Toby Malone

Progress: 216 pages complete, 412 pages to go; 34.39% read.

Contextual Notes:

Chapter 1 Draft of 1.8:  https://www.reddit.com/r/jamesjoyce/comments/14qzjvy/the_first_draft_of_the_anna_livia_plurabelle/

Edna O'Brien: how James Joyce’s Anna Livia Plurabelle shook the literary world: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/27/edna-obrien-how-james-joyces-anna-livia-plurabelle-shook-the-literary-world

Anna Livia on Peter Chrisp’s Joyce blog From Swerve of Shore to Bend of Bay: https://peterchrisp.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-rivers-of-anna-livia-plurabelle.html

The 1117 rivers listed in Raphael Slepon's Finnegans Wake Extensible Elucidation Treasury: http://www.fweet.org/cgi-bin/fw_grep.cgi?i=1&o=1&c=1&a=1&b=1&s=_C,Rivers_

FinWake.com’s illuminated 1.8 with river images:  https://www.finwake.com/ch08/ch08.htm

Joyce reading the chapter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCFzBRMMBCw&t=79s

More on the recording:  https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/online/ulysses/recording-anna-livia-plurabelle

Not mentioned in the episode but still interesting…

Fionn O Marcaigh’s All About Anna Livia: https://storiesfromthewaterside.ie/stories/all-about-anna-livia/

Anna Livia Plurabelle-inspired tattoo: https://www.facebook.com/fantinitattoo/posts/is-there-any-fans-of-james-joyce-herethis-tattoo-is-my-interpretation-of-anna-li/2668790800036198/

Anna Livia Plurabella (sic) was an actress in porn films in the 1970s… https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2193280/?ref_=tt_cl_t_2

“We need an ALP statue. Make it a lady, but also make it a river.” The sculpture Anna Livia by Éamonn O'Doherty, in Croppies Memorial Park, Dublin, Ireland, known as the ‘Floozie in the Jacuzzi’ and the ‘Hoor in the Sewer’: originally it was a water feature with waterfalls in the main street of Dublin, but people vandalized it and dumped washing liquid into the water feature, flooding the streets with soap: http://www.olddublintown.com/anna-livia-sculpture.html

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