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

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