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The hundred-letter 'thunderwords' are arguably the most enduring, well-known, and mystifying feature of Finnegans Wake, jumbles of letters cobbling together words from far-flung languages to create a word salad of difficulty that seems to stand as emblematic of the overall challenges of the Wake. In this bonus episode, we spend a few minutes considering all ten thunderwords, their 1001 letters, and the insight of eminent Wake scholars including Marshall McLuhan, Eric McLuhan, and Bernard Benstock. Now that WAKE has spoken all ten thunderwords, we have mashed them all together, in case you've ever desperately wanted to hear what they all sound like, entirely butchered, in chronological order, with no breaks. What more could you want?
This week's personnel: Toby Malone
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Hooraymost! Itâs the dirtiest chapter featuring insect erotica in all of literature, so grab your doodlers and bungholes, weâre going spizzing! Best of all, beloved Wakexpert Lucy Brazier finds room on her fagroaster to get down to some Clowntalkin about the savage rivalry between Shaun and his brother as we cover chapter 3.1! We wonder about narrative-minded donkeys, ponder what it would take to have the smell of an old woman come off you, name-check Monty Python, and plan a letter-based tourist trap, all ahead of the one thunderword that has 101 letters, just to prove a point. Itâs a pervy, raucous episode of WAKE, and we couldnât have enjoyed it more.
(Apologies for the sound quality on Toby's mic, it's an ongoing problem that will be fixed)
This week's readers: Lucy Brazier, TJ Young, Toby Malone
Progress: 428 pages complete, 200 pages to go; 68.15% read.
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We find ourselves at the end of Book Two, and you know what that means: another ever-popular recap episode! Using the mind-bending brilliance of the LĂĄszlĂł Moholy-Nagy Finnegans Wake Diagram as a jumping-off point, Toby and TJ try to rank the chapters of Book 2, nostalgically reconsider Night Lessons, and compare the text to a disparate collection of cultural touchstones. Topics may include, to varying levels of detail: JJ Abrams, Luigi Pirandello, Riverdale, The Master and Margarita, the Berliner Ensemble, Punchdrunk's Sleep No More, Passing Strange, ChatGPT, andThe Sound and the Fury. Join us in the temporary high that is generated when two readers assume that hubris isn't really a thing, and that surely they're well past the hardest part now...
(Apologies for the sound quality on Toby's mic, it's an ongoing problem that will be fixed)
This week's chatters: Toby Malone, TJ Young
Progress: 399 pages complete, 229 pages to go; 63.54% read.
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This week we break things down to the quark level to bring you mythical love stories (featuring a king named Mark), ghost-written historical romances, interminable sentences, and Joycean numerology. Jackie Mahoney joins the team and expertly weaves their way through questions of whether chapter 2.4 is about Tristan and Isolde, or if it's more about about the four perverts leering at them from the dock, and we finish up with a rousing consideration of Joyce as Beyoncé, the author as God, squelchy onomatopoeia, and, inevitably, the music of Evanescence.
Trigger warning: descriptions of bodily noises.
(Apologies for the sound quality on Toby's mic, it's an ongoing problem that will be fixed)
This week's readers: Jackie Mahoney, TJ Young, Toby Malone
Progress: 399 pages complete, 229 pages to go; 63.54% read.
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Hray! This week TJ's fiancé Taylor Hoover joins us to close down the bar, avoid the insults, and drink up all the dregs left over! Find out just what disqualifies one from becoming a limousine lady, the logistics behind transcribing crowd noise, and the relationship between Joyce, Charles Marowitz, and Tron: Legacy. Don't hide, seek this week's episode of WAKE!
(Apologies for the sound quality on Toby's mic, it's an ongoing problem that will be fixed)
This week's readers: Taylor Hoover, Toby Malone, TJ Young
Progress: 382 pages complete, 246 pages to go; 60.83% read.
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Richard Harte is one of the world's preeminent interpreters of Joyce: a 25 year veteran of Bloomsday performances, and the undisputed star of One Little Goat Theatre Company's parallel (not competing) Finnegans Wake podcast, currently under development as a film and exhaustive live chronicle of the Earwicker clan. When Toby joined the audience to watch his old friend Richard perform 1.5 of the Wake at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library last week, he knew we had to get Richard on to talk about the Wake: and talk he did! In this joyful bonus episode, hear all about how many times Richard has read the Wake (the answer may surprise you!), the spiritual feeling of walking the Dublin locations of the book, the logistics of preparing the live readings, and plans for the future. It's a crossover episode, and we couldn't be happier to have Richard along with us.
This week's personnel: Richard Harte, TJ Young, Toby Malone
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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TJ is back, and WAKE, the podcast of the history of the future, rolls on its unstoppable way! This week, we consider just why siblings are generally awful to one another as Shaun reads Shem to filth to round out chapter 1.7. We discuss Toby's favourite bookstore (Lane Bookshop Claremont, represent!), Latin stories of bowel evacuation, the Mighty Ducks, Moby-Dick, and Alan Ayckbourn: so, in general, a normal day at the office.
This week's readers: Toby Malone, TJ Young
Progress: 195 pages complete, 433 pages to go; 31.05% read.
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It's a WAKE of firsts: the first episode recorded in Australia, the first episode with two guests, and, most difficult of all, the first episode without TJ! When schedules don't mesh, there's nothing for it but to plough on, for the Wake waits for no man (or musical workshop). This week comes to us from the echoey comforts of Toby's parents' house in Perth, where Mick and Jo Malone unveil their roles as the people most responsible for getting Joyce into Toby's head. We talk sibling rivalry, Irish revolutionaries, and whether Shem has reason to be upset about his treatment. Inconvenient, David!
This week's readers: Toby Malone, Mick Malone, Jo Malone
Progress: 182 pages complete, 446 pages to go; 28.98% read.
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We would never consider ourselves mooks, nor would we gripe about the task in front of us, but finishing 1.6's Quiz (along with the needlessly complicated tale of the Mookse and Gripes) made us wonder whether Joyce might learn a little from Sad Girl Lit. We get a call from the other side of the planet and welcome Toby's hugely accomplished arts administrator sister, Georgia Malone, to talk about the book that "everyone owns and no one reads", the use of Joyce as a medal of honour among moody young blokes, and lay out our credentials for the knowledge of useless facts. Georgia gives us a refreshing take on how best to enjoy WAKE (come for the preamble, skip the Joyce bit), calls Joyce a wanker, and considers the place of Australian accents, Aesop, and Magic Eye pictures in understanding the work.
This week's readers: Georgia Malone, Toby Malone, TJ Young
Progress: 168 pages complete, 460 pages to go; 26.75% read.
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For this week's perzacto episode, we are joined by world-changing director and all-round delight Aili Huber, as we consider the first half of the least user-friendly quiz in literary history. We have our first ever tap-out (it's easy to get lost on the page if your eye wanders), consider Dr Seuss, the gish gallop, and e.e. cummings, before we bring it all home by considering how Finnegans Wake might fit within the parameters of Aili and Toby's 2021 book Cutting Plays for Performance. In short: don't know; none; infinity.
This week's readers: Aili Huber, Toby Malone, TJ Young
Progress: 148 pages complete, 480 pages to go; 23.57% read.
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