WAKE: Cold Reading Finnegans Wake

The attacks come thick and fast on HCE in this week's reading of WAKE, from court appearances to name-calling, from canoodling to gun violence, it's amazing that he's able to rest at all. This week TJ reads the palimpsest that is Finnegans Wake, along with Toby and Toby’s brilliant 12 year old daughter, Bridie Malone, as we confront our growing international audience by producing little of actual use.

Contextual Notes

One Little Goat’s Finnegans Wake project: https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake

One Little Goat’s podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/james-joyces-finnegans-wake/id1743344183

Thanks to a ringing endorsement from heroic bookcaster and comedy legend Michael Ian Black, WAKE has gone communal! That is, we've found a place to discuss the verbal maze that is The Wake. Join us at www.patreon.com/WAKEpod!

Also, listen to Obscure: https://www.patreon.com/michaelianblack/posts

Joyce promised 'Sdense' in 1.3 and boy did he deliver! This week Toby and TJ learn their lesson for being overly confident last time with a dose of reality. For the first half of this challenging chapter, we discuss Wake-inspired tattoos, how to handle critics and slanderers, and find a use for sharkskin smokewallet!

This week's readers: Toby Malone

Progress: 61 pages complete, 567 pages to go; 9.7% read.

Contextual Notes

Stephen Crowe’s Wake in Progress:  http://www.wakeinprogress.com/

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WAKE gets musical! We welcome our first guest, musical genius Meg Logue, who has arranged and performed potentially the most melodious cover ever of The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly. We discuss gravelly voiced Irishmen, German opera, singing at wakes, and agree that we'd all like a sip of whatever Poolbeg's on.

This week's readers: Meg Logue, Toby Malone

Progress: 47 pages complete, 581 pages to go; 7.4% read.

Contextual Notes

Anthony Burgess singing “Persse O’Reilly”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QemsM_ROWSo

The Dubliners, “Humpty Dumpty”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc15EGklXQ0

Useful Resources

The music of Joyce: www.james-joyce-music.com

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WAKE rolls on like so many thunderwords, as we explore the first part of Chapter 1.2 of Finnegans Wake. We consider the slanders heaped on poor old HCE (Here Comes Everybody), tiptoe around racially problematic language, and ponder whether speedcasting Joyce on a treadmill is an incentive for cardiac health.

This week's readers: Toby Malone

Progress: 44 pages complete, 584 pages to go; 7% read.

Contextual Notes:

On Thunderwords: https://www.finnegansweb.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Thunderwords

https://hatterscabinet.com/pages-fw/fwtheme-thunderwords.html

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Against all odds, WAKE chugs along, and we finish chapter 1! Toby and TJ discuss Wake-inspired band names, typography, and bring the dramatic in a performance of Mutt and Jute.

This week's readers: Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 29 pages complete, 599 pages to go; 4.62% read.

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The WAKE reading begins in earnest, with the first half of chapter 1! Join Toby and TJ as we discuss thunder, museyrooms, and Joyce casually dropping poetic gems on the first page.

This week's readers: Toby Malone

Progress: 16 pages complete, 612 pages to go; 2.55% read.

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WAKE is a cold reading of Joyce's Finnegans Wake, just because. Today, in a preamble episode, we start by unravelling some of the history of the book, before the reading starts.

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Come for the thunderwords, stay for the fun. WAKE: Cold Reading Finnegans Wake, on Apple Podcasts and Spotify now.