Finnegans Wake on Donald Trump
Finnegans Wake always seems to have something to say regarding the current moment. It is, after all, "as modern as tomorrow afternoon." (FW p. 309) It's been called the western I-Ching, an oracle...
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FinWakeATX visits the Irish Consulate in Austin
Our group's new t-shirt design, courtesy of Evan James from Sunken Ship Studios.It's been quite a year for our Finnegans Wake Reading Group here in Austin.We've experienced significant growth, with new...
View ArticleHappy Birthday to James Joyce! (& The Feast of St. Brigit)
Happy Birthday to James Joyce! Born on 2/2/1882. And Happy Birthday to Ulysses! Published on 2/2/1922.February 2nd is a very special day in Joyceana.For James Joyce, February 2 was, in Richard...
View ArticleThe Great Letter and the Infinite Process of Self-Embedding
"When a part so ptee does duty for the holos we soon grow to use of an allforabit." - FW p. 18-19"Will you walk into my wavetrap? said the spiter to the shy." - FW p. 287"Joyce wants his text to...
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Waywords & Meansigns Returns with a Third Volume, Featuring Contributions...
(Art by Jacob Drachler from his glorious book Id-Grids and Ego-Graphs: A Confabulation With Finnegans Wake, reviewed at Brainpickings.org.) The Waywords & Meansigns collective effort of setting...
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Guest Post: Scott Rhodes on the Making of "Vicocyclometer" (for Waywords &...
[The newest edition of Waywords & Meansigns was made available today, featuring over 100 new recordings from artists hailing from 15 different countries. Here in Austin, a small team of Wake-heads...
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Interview: Bruce Woodside Talks Finnegans Wake Reading Groups, Animation, and...
Waywords art by Sara Jewell.[Bruce Woodside is an animator/writer/musician out of Los Angeles, California. Beyond his career contributing to such notable films as 'Space Jam,''Beauty and the Beast,'...
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A Recap of the Diasporic Joyce Conference in Toronto (Part 1 of 2)
One of the ten thunder words, by Robert Amos. Last week I had the honor of participating in and experiencing the 2017 North American James Joyce Conference in the fantastic city of Toronto, Ontario. It...
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A Recap of the Diasporic Joyce Conference in Toronto (Part 2 of 2)
Victoria College at the Univ. of Toronto where all of this took place.(Continued from part 1 here.) The cool, damp Toronto air was a welcome respite from the oppressive summer heat in Texas. It rained...
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Returning with Some News
Djuna Barnes illustration.This blog has been dormant now for nearly three months while I've been tied up with full-time employment, home ownership, unfinished writing projects, and immersive reading...
View ArticleWaging Peace from the Inkbattle House: Finnegans Wake in the Shadow of War
(Note: A truncated version of this essay was presented at the North American James Joyce Conference at Victoria College in Toronto in June 2017.)I. “Enough...have I read of it...to augur in the hurry...
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Some Fun with "riverrun"
Norse Vegvisir rune.Our local Wake reading group recently cycled from the somber lines of Anna Livia Plurabelle's bittersweet closing monologue back over to the first page of Finnegans Wake: "A way a...
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The Secret Life of Mushrooms in Finnegans Wake
Amanita muscaria aka Fly agaric.Fellow Austin Wake group member Gus Strozier sent me an extremely fascinating article that sparked many ideas for me and so I must share the article and some thoughts on...
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Finnegans Wake and Child's Play
"Hide-and-Seek" (1942) by Pavel Tchelitchew.I've been in Belgium for the past few days, enjoying a nice vacation and preparing for the XXVI International James Joyce Symposium taking place this week in...
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The Pantheon of FINNEGANS WOKE (or Why Read Finnegans Wake? Testimonials from...
[A modified version of this piece was presented at the XXVI International James Joyce Symposium at the University of Antwerp, Belgium on June 15, 2018.]In the wake of her husband’s death, Nora Joyce...
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Baseball in Finnegans Wake?
George Herman Ruth pitching for the Red Sox, circa 1915."Holy cow!" - Phil RizzutoBeing that Baseball and Finnegans Wake are two of my favorite things in the universe, naturally I've tried to seek out...
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Links: Finnegan Wakes at Burning Man and the Birth of the Wake in South France
One of the highlights of the International James Joyce Symposium that took place in Antwerp a few months ago was the "Finnegan Wakes" recording project organized by Gavan Kennedy. This ambitious...
View ArticleThunderword No. 2
(Perkodhuskurunbarggruauyagokgorlayorgromgremmitghundhurthrumathunaradidillifaititillibumullunukkunun!) - Finnegans Wake, p. 23This, the second of ten 100-letter thunderwords scattered throughout...
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McLuhan's Jolting Thunders plus Links: the Real Prankquean, RadioMOLI,...
Happy (belated) Birthday, James Joyce!Recently I finished reading Eric McLuhan's extraordinary work of scholarship, The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake, after having thumbed through it for about five...
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Carvings in the Claybook: A Reading of Finnegans Wake pgs. 18-19
From Id-Grids and Ego-Graphs: A Confabulation with Finnegans Wake by Jacob Drachler.After cycling from the last chapter back to the beginning, our Austin Finnegans Wake Reading Group recently finished...
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