Not a dry eye in the house for my third and final (not to mention record-breaking) appearance on this most excellent of podcasts, where Toby & TJ read James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake…
Book Four is upon us, and it is with mixed feelings, both excited and sad, that we launch into the final segments of Finnegans Wake. Helping us along the way is fan-favourite WAKE veteran, internationally-acclaimed author, Lucy “old rubberskin” Brazier, who helps us get into a typically ribald discussion of Simlish, Instagram thots, tortoise dreams, terrible superhero names, fan fiction, and a plan for a Biddy the Hen statue in Phoenix Park. Come for the reading, stay for our brutal takedown of the Oxford World’s Classic: it’s more fun than a sailor on a horse!
This week’s readers: Lucy Brazier, Toby Malone, TJ Young
Progress: 613 pages complete, 15 pages to go; 97.61% read.
Contextual Notes
Brancusi’s Whirligig https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/online/ulysses/brancusis-symbol-joyce
AO3 James Joyce Fanfic: https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Finnegans%20Wake%20-%20James%20Joyce/works
Finnegans Wake and Spongebob Fanfic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/9436142
Mutt and Jeff https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/comic-art/about-this-exhibition/early-years-1890s-to-1920s/mutt-and-jeff-an-unlikely-pair/
Three Castles Burning on early houses: https://threecastlesburning.libsyn.com/the-dawning-of-the-day-last-orders-at-the-early-house
Lucy Brazier’s website https://portergirl.com/
Finnegans What?: Finnegans Wake – A guide by an idiot https://www.amazon.ca/Finnegans-What-Wake-guide-idiot/dp/1092156100/
Lucy on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/brazierlucy/
Lucy on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/@lucybrazierauthor/
If Movies Ended When Someone Said the Title: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DMndH8QiI4
If Movies Ended When Someone Said the Title Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzMsbdAQRg4&t=0s
If Movies Ended When Someone Said the Title 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT41rqh-Udk
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