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!

Often, when you show the Wake to an uninitiated reader, the first reaction will be “that’s weird.” Today we embrace the weird and lean into the unconventional, with a delightful, insightful chat with the overseer of the Weirdoverse, Bobby Campbell. For this bonus non-reading episode, we discuss the major role of Robert Anton Wilson in Joyce culture, psychedelics, language creation as class warfare, and ponder the questions over whether the Wake is written in English, whether Joyce had syphilis, whether Joyce was psychic, and whether Joseph Campbell was citing his insider sources. As we consider the mile-long Alka-Seltzer tablet that is the Wake, we settle on questions of the work’s place as a sacred text, whether Modernism remains unsolved, and gather our courage to brave the intimidating but friendly purists on Reddit.

This week's chatters: Bobby Campbell, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Contextual Notes

Robert Anton Wilson: https://nocturnalrevelries.com/2018/07/23/robert-anton-wilson-the-last-great-irish-modernist/

Maybe Night: https://www.maybeday.net/night/

https://www.maybeday.net/night/WTF.html

r/JamesJoyce: https://www.reddit.com/r/jamesjoyce/

r/WAKEpod!: https://www.reddit.com/r/WAKEpod/

Linda Lotiel’s Mind Maps: https://www.maybeday.net/night/mind_maps.html

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!

What happens when you put an erudite Canadian-Australian in a room with a verbose Australian-Canadian? This week, as TJ suffers through a department meeting at work, Seth Austin of the "hold my beer" W.A.S.T.E Mailing List joins Toby to take on the maelstrom that is HCE's defensiveness masking desperation. With perspectives on Giambattista Vico, father-son power struggles, and Oedipus Rex, we allow ourselves to be surprised by the text, where turnintaxis pop up where you least expect them.

This week's readers: Toby Malone, Seth Austin

Contextual Notes

W.A.S.T.E Mailing List on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wastemailinglist/

W.A.S.T.E Mailing List on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6TqI_9Rj0jWXsAGTnNmodw W.A.S.T.E Mailing List on Substack: https://wastemailinglist.substack.com/

W.A.S.T.E Mailing List on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5miLzV90JolgEsfCudyMU2

Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2794.The_Crying_of_Lot_49 Vico’s New Science: https://fpa2014.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/vico-the-new-science.pdf

Finnegans Wake: untangling its histories of humans, the animal world and the environment in the Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2024/12/16/finnegans-wake-untangling-its-histories-of-humans-the-animal-world-and-the-environment/

Richard Ellmann: James Joyce, New York,1959,1982.

On Ellmann: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/09/specials/joyce-ellmann.html

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!

Numerologists rejoice: WAKE has hit the master number, and to celebrate, our old pal JJ has chosen to drop the subtlety and let his freak flag fly! Leonard Cohen may have said there was a crack in everything, but we don't want to know what people would accuse HCE of doing with it. Join us to discuss the Smashing Pumpkins, one man shows, adaptation theory, Yinzers and their Jawns, hundred year old pornography, and whether or not Toby and TJ have become... gasp... purists?

This week's readers: Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 532 pages complete, 96 pages to go; 84.71% read.

Contextual Notes

Thirty-three by the Smashing Pumpkins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYSbztCCTlA

Billy Corgan’s insane podcast Thirty-Three: https://podbay.fm/p/thirty-three-with-william-patrick-corgan

That numerology page we read from: https://www.worldnumerology.com/numerology-master-numbers/master-number-33/

Jawn: https://www.allegiantgoods.co/blogs/news/jawn-definition?srsltid=AfmBOoorICuUMe0UEweSb_A1rToRcRwx2ql3WMoED3g5n0MibrCzTQr9

WAKE on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/wakepod.bsky.social

フィネガンズ・ウェイクを読む https://bsky.app/profile/finneganswake-jpn.bsky.social

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!