Finnegans Wake
Novel by James JoyceWikipedia
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Nov 4, 2026
Peter BudrinGUEST
And because Stern was born in Ireland, and she was... part Irish himself, Joyce considered him a kind of part of his own genealogy as well.
Peter BudrinGUEST
And there's quite a, there's a reference to him, stylistic reference to him in the Ulysses and in Finnegan's Wake.
Peter BudrinGUEST
So, so there is a little bit of, of that as well.
Peter BudrinGUEST
He's kind of picked up at this as this kind of proto-modernist
Jim ThayerHOST
7.
Jim ThayerHOST
From James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, River run, past even Adams, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Houth Castle and environs.
Jim ThayerHOST
That's James Joyce.
Jim ThayerHOST
Let me say here, I have no idea what this sentence means or why it's on the list.
Luke O'NeillHOST
And great chat to him actually.
Luke O'NeillHOST
He said to me that the real understanding of the brain is James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.
Luke O'NeillHOST
He said, if you read that, you know what's going on in the brain.
Luke O'NeillHOST
And I'm going, wow, he even understands Finnegan's Wake.
Luke O'NeillHOST
And now he's won the Nobel Prize.
Luke O'NeillHOST
And it's a very worthy Nobel Prize because Carl's discovery really has given us a huge leg up.
Asimina ArvanitakiGUEST
So maybe we won't call the quark...
Asimina ArvanitakiGUEST
The fundamentals of the proton and the neutron, we won't call them quarks because someone wouldn't have read James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.
Asimina ArvanitakiGUEST
They may have different names, but the effects, because the laws of nature won't change.
Asimina ArvanitakiGUEST
They are there whether we like them or not.
Nicola MeighanHOST
Absolutely.
Pat KaneGUEST
And that Here Comes Everybody comes from James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, who is the kind of HCE character in the most difficult novel ever written.
Pat KaneGUEST
So there's a wee bit of circularity about it, you know, but it's also an attempt to say that we have a relationship with everybody in the audience and it can be different at different stages of life.
Pat KaneGUEST
So everybody in the room can be two generations of a family who listen to You and Cry and here's a record that answers your desire for us to be a bit more contemporary.
Neil JordanGUEST
And it's extremely kind of acerbic and philosophic because Stevens had a great imagination.
Neil JordanGUEST
James Joyce, actually, when he was writing Finnegan's Wake, thought if he ever croaked it before he finished the book, he asked James Stevens, who was apparently tiny, tiny little fellow.
Neil JordanGUEST
Tell us a
Ryan TubridyHOST
bit about James Stevens and the book itself.
Jimmy CarrHOST
First up, Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg asked you, what phrase is now used to mean, come over to mine for sexy times? James Joyce.
Richard AyoadeGUEST
That was your...? I thought the question would be, who wrote Finnegan's Wake? Well, you would have been right.
Richard AyoadeGUEST
Yeah.
Richard AyoadeGUEST
I mean, I feel like an idiot.
Tom McCarthyGUEST
I can't think of anyone who has a better understanding of how media works, to use the kind of McLuhanite term.
Tom McCarthyGUEST
In fact, McLuhan's working title for the Gutenberg Galaxy was The Road to Finnegan's Wake.
Tom McCarthyGUEST
He was a big fan of Joyce.
Tom McCarthyGUEST
But, you know, Bloom understands advertising, right? He has these very good ideas for ads.
Riley MurdockHOST
And the last time that happened, the FBI got involved.
Riley MurdockHOST
So what I'm really trying to say is that James Joyce was nearly blind by the time he finished Finnegan's Wake.
Riley MurdockHOST
And frankly, it shows.
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Tom McCarthyGUEST
I can't think of anyone who has a better understanding of how media works, to use the kind of McLuhanite.
Tom McCarthyGUEST
So in fact, McLuhan's working title for the Gutenberg Galaxy was The Road to Finnegan's Wake.
Tom McCarthyGUEST
He was a big fan of Joyce.
Tom McCarthyGUEST
But, you know, Bloom understands advertising, right? He has these very good ideas for ads.
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