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

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