 welcome back Milwaukee's and rare lovers of humor and you are rare in these days of pucker-lipped hearts so without further ado let's let me share with you today some of the most poetic creative writing that has ever been compacted into a single little book finnigan's wake this chapter is the chapter on shen the son the son the twin of shon shen is the introverted genius the poet mama's boy shon is the thief the political seat satirist he's a successful business men extrovert their father is both in one the the story in finnigan's wake the mother the father the daughter the sons of the the town it's beautiful it's brilliant it's the hardest book in the world but once you grow up to it through your appreciation of diverse poetry and literature which is everything before 1938 has been digested in this book anything written that was significant you can bet and in basically any language too since joy spoke how many languages like 15 or something like some ridiculous amount he knew he was a master of what do they call it the the science of language and he was also a singer and a bard and so Joyce Joyce was the the greatest and it's all here in finnigan's wake it's all here and the great thing about this book is it's circular so it really doesn't matter where you start you could start here this could be the first thing you've listened to on finnigan's wake chances are I mean that's what it takes to you're not gonna just approach it by yourself and go and read it guaranteed you're not you'll bounce off it's a very strong wake if you try to throw yourself at it it will thrust you away that's what it will do because it it what it kind of demands of the the reader is it sort of demands that you know everything already and and so it's a very Talmudic book in that way it's pure sublime genius it's actually the greatest you well you've heard my talks on it I've given a lot of talks or you can go to my playlist finnigan's wake where I share some of my talks and some other people's talks on it too because it's it's a fascinating book I haven't read the whole book no no no no no I'm trying to understand it because otherwise just to to read it and let it wash over your head is many regards pointless I think it's pointless and you should bounce off you got to use your intuition and tell you what your gut tells you your guts gonna tell you that's like this is this is nonsense and gibberish well I mean get away from it that's that's what you have to do it's a book that you're gonna have to leave and come back to and leave and come back to and leave I didn't start appreciating it until after I had listened to some videos on it namely Terence McKenna once you know I first read it I thought it was all gibberish and a waste of time because I had appreciated Ulysses quite a bit so I thought well you know I'll read finnigan's wake now it's not that kind of a book see so even Ulysses I I'm coming to realize more and more it's like I missed most of it and reading it by myself and not engaging other people in it that that's what you need for these books but finnigan's wake absolutely you need that I'm gonna share with you just the most beautiful paragraph or two within the chapter on Shem by the way it's a circular book and it's also this he's created his own style of painting with the logos he paints with words and so in this chapter and in this section I mean you you'll you see many references to many different things historical and biblical and psychological as well as within the story of the wake and even references to paints and and pastiche and painting things and in a very similar way so there's Dante there's a descent into hell in this and it fits kind of especially in this you'll you'll you'll see the references to the the descent into hell so so of course a lot of the symbology that goes along with it with the you know he uses and reiterates from all different cultures Hindu and Egyptian and Christian and Muslim and Irish pagan and Judaism he's he incorporates so much of the symbolism and also both the Jesuits and the orthodox and then the the Protestants he like so much comes into full focus through the Finnegan's wake that's why it's a mystery it's a mystery book it's not easy every sentence every paragraph it's gonna leave you with a huge question mark if that kind of thing makes it's your nightmare and makes you feel like way too uncomfortable this is the kind of book that that well you'll need to read other writers first that's why it challenges you to be proficient with almost that basically everybody else because he's read everybody all the historical writings and more so and even the the very essence of Finnegan's wake that from what I hear is the whole architecture of the wake is based entirely which is an interesting emphasis on the medieval book of alchemy called lasencia nova by gambatista Vico so I haven't read that I'm sure it would help too but all books help read even reading all knowing history and diverse histories is gonna really help you with the book but also knowing like every detail anything you know from hemming and and the the art of basket weaving and and cloth making and and the making of clothes and styles of clothes and down to costumes and and you know wearing particular regalia and what the regalia are called on the costumes and pins and and different little tweaks in the in the ham and the the collar and things like that he knows all of the names of these he knows medicine the man was a polymathic genius so it's a very very difficult book so I think I might just break this talk here and then and then go ahead and then start reading it publishing what I'm gonna read here in the next video just because it's already a little long it's about a ten minute talk already which is a bit long for people who who just wanted to hear listen to some Finnegan's wake well I'm telling you I'm trying to prep you that's why I'm prepping you to like realize that you have to get in the right frame of mind it isn't an easy book and isn't isn't something that's going to be delivered to you through perfect perfect punctuation and perfect sentence structure and perfect grammar like all of those things you can throw up to the wind he's literally painting with language it's what he's doing but no one no one could ever do that like like Joyce was able to do it I dare say he'll he'll never be taught in in history he came at a real high point in cultural history if we seem if we if we think about that and as a side note I wonder where Terrence McKenna puts Finnegan's wake 1938 or 39 whenever it was published where he puts Finnegan's wake on his time wave continuum graph in my opinion McKenna's most harebrained and just idiotic of ideas I think that that's where McKenna was just he was just out of his gourd but McKenna too was a great genius and a great like his great benefit I think obviously it's in plants and the bringing to the forefront the the importance and need for the preservation of shamanic wisdom within of the plants shamanic plant wisdom for the rest of the world we need to preserve that through also you know in many ways both through his botanical dimensions in Hawaii that he set up the foundation he set up and then also through another through actually preserving the indigenous regions of the Amazon and South America from exploitation from the forces of mining and drilling and deforestation we have to leave these places alone it's so important and as you know that's at the forefront it's been at the forefront of of modern history for a long time I think it's it's post Joyce to Joyce might not have realized the import of course he was knew about the the the rabid history going back 200 plus years of rubber collectors and rubber barons throughout the world and that was the real term rubber baron rubber baron was a deep deformation of the of the term for you know by the media to try to forget about rubber barons you know the the jungle is sort of like the what we're doing and what people do to exploit the jungle even where it is protected companies go in and infringe upon that and send in people to kill tribal leaders and stuff like that who are trying to stand up to these huge companies it's a massive epidemic going on in many countries throughout the Amazon and so the bringing that to the awareness of the forefront is a huge one of the biggest greatest things I think of the McKenna legacy but included in that is his he was a Joyce scholar specifically Finnegan's wake so that's why I point to his talk to might do you well I mean obviously he's a better talker than me I'm nobody right like who likes my voice like really McKenna though McKenna had the voice you could I could listen to him for hours and hours McKenna was just so fascinating and funny his humor never failed to delight me in every talk I'd be in stitches at some point by his wit and rye subtlety of storytelling man was brilliant and so I point to it it will do you better to listen to McKenna's talks before mine mine are probably a little bit more for the person for the people who have already listened to McKenna but are still stumbling to appreciate the way because that's what it takes first we have to appreciate other people appreciating the wake and listen to them and say really you can appreciate it like tell me about it like I thought it was like nonsense and totally ineffable and the truth is actually contrary it as McKenna points out it it's very hard book but it rewards the effort you have to go at it as he says you have to go at it with like an archaeologist with nut pick and toothbrush to uncover layer after layer after layer that was the sort of way McKenna spoke he had this California stoner draw that I like and many people liked and still do McKenna though dead was great so this is a book that takes it's it's it's an endless introduction that's what it's going to take you don't finish it people say look I finished it it's like well great what are you saying about it like that then you've missed it you you tried to force yourself through it so you could say you finished it and there's a few people who stand up and say oh but I did it I finished it and now you didn't it's not the book that you any you can I mean you can think you did but you're deluded what you think you've you've digested it all and you you you you grasp it first of all then what's it about I mean obviously there's the family there's the divine family there's the resurrection underneath the whole thing it's a it's a it's a book it's a really it's a Christian monument the Finnegan the story of Finnegan is a story of a Christian of a resurrection of a hero of a cultural hero of an ancestor it's it's just and so that allegory runs through there the allegory is the father is Finnegan he's he's the he's the giant he represents all of the basically the past pantheon of gods that that history has bequothed us so it's a monumental book it's absolutely unassailable and and incomprehensible and and the best we're gonna do is to start to appreciate its poetic buoyancy and ease and pithy significance because it's the most pithy of poetic prose what can I say I'm I'm a dwarf I'm a dwarf we're all dwarves trying to come to the wake and so it's beyond Shakespeare I mean Shakespeare has been you know surpassed far surpassed with with the whole story there are all of these stories kings and queens and treachery and and princes and brothers and the treachery of the brothers and the that it's like every every possible archetypical historical scenario exists within this book and it's also a circular book and it's it's also a fractal so I'm gonna share with you though a very difficult it's a very difficult passage but I think when I read it for you the way I read it will help to clarify the type of lightness that Joyce is taking with language and the liberties that he's taking with language just to read it yourself at any pace and let it roll over your head I mean you can it's just can be absolute gibberish and then you can't you can't say you read it because it's not that kind of a book like I'm saying I haven't read probably like 95% of the book it's a very difficult book but the little bits I've started to pick into with nut pick and toothbrush and and makes it and of course I've had a go at it in certain chapters and passages I've gotten further I've made an effort to to dig into the book and it helps if you cheat and jump around and then learn about what other people say about it that's a little bit of preparation and you can call it cheating but you can also jump around and cheat and use your intuition and say hey you know I feel like this right in the middle of this chat this paragraph it should go here and you skip ahead just like oh that's what I feel intuitively you might be right in some respects because it's a circular kind of book I hope this introduction for those of you have been patient enough to go through it has been valuable for many of you because this is gonna be a fun little 10 or 15 minute read it's a difficult read but I'm only gonna go a couple three or four paragraphs it's very like I said I don't know like I'm saying ladies and gentlemen it's a very hard book to to read for you it takes a lot of soul and character and and and depth even to to miss it even to read it and and obviously we're gonna miss 80% of the significance like that's what I'm trying to point out but I hope that I'm able to at least shine some light upon it through my diverse experience and my diverse reading that I've done I'm not a language scholar I don't know any other language except English that's a detriment but well it's it's hard to say this whole this whole chapter I have so many parts highlighted and underlined but not not for like oh look I'm gonna reread this it's like I'm trying to trying to understand it and circle things that I want to come back to and try to understand more and underline things that just seem especially prolifically poetic and amusing like his play on words like like uselessly unreadable he writes because he's the author of Ulysses he writes uselessly unreadable so there's the Antondra sewerful of guinea gold wine right sorrowful sewerful right it makes sense probsenium pantheom I'm these words have been fiddled with shruggers country boast allowed alone to himself can you bait it vulgariano did but study with stolen fruit how cutely to copy all their various styles of his signature so as one day to utter an epical forged check on the public for his own private profit until as just related the dustbins united scullier maid and house house helps sorority better known as slutteries malted thought turned him down and assisted nature by unitedly shooing the source of annoyance out of the place all together and take totally on the heat of the moment holding one another's gawk for no one hound or scrub lady not even the Turk ungreakable in percent of the armenable dared with the pole cat at close range as where we were ungreakable in and making some point-to-point in remarks as they done so at the perfect of the sniffy your honor a boon but why oh why a stunk mr. okay so that was just for an example that wasn't the section I was going to read it's a very difficult book it's cumbersome and lofty but where we find the lofty flights of poetic wit and rye cunning and craft of wordsmith is just a few sentences later it begins in this massive overflowing elegy and remember we're in the book of sons in the specifically shem the introverted son who you should also know is a shem is Joyce's alter ego let's just put it at that not Sean Sean is Joyce's shadow so he's gonna use the young Ian terms like that which by the way young and Joyce had no affinity for for another one another Joyce despised Carl young he despised psychoanalysis but it's funny psychoanalysis and Carl young did not despise Joyce or creativity in any way psychoanalysis was embracing create creativity but so many interesting ways to approach it so let's begin shall we and for those is the those other people who have left already have no time for introductions I'm telling you it's like well that's why you're those are the type of people who you know they're never gonna read Finnegan's wake they're never going to be able to appreciate it it takes the time it takes the effort of listening to what other people say about it who are interested in it at least I've done that with basically anything anybody I can and either even other people reading it there are better and worse renditions of other people reading it there's some really good ones and I've put them in in my playlist too there's one I read in my playlist but then another was some Irish guy is reading it and he does a brilliant job in reiterating the wake in a large part it's a book that has to be read aloud and it has to be read alone both you have to do both right and he he's hinting at everything boast aloud alone to himself yet the bumper sprinkler use used to boast so this is like they're basically weaving in you never know as he where when they're weaving in hearsay there's lots of hearsay in this this book on Shem or the chapter on Shem so much of hearsay gets played into the narrative randomly so you just have to try and go with the the flow and the feeling of the rhythm and try to understand decode what the inflection is of what they're saying and if it's a if there's the derogatory inflection you can bet it's the hearsay of the people of the public the Shem the Sean supporting public who are in there denouncing Shem and and bringing up cases on his lowliness and his unworthiness and backwardness and so forth and that's and so it's one of the most comic chapters and I think it's also for me after I've studied the book I realize that you you can't start with the first chapter of course start with the first paragraph you got to start with that because that's an enigmatic well I mean start with the first five five or ten paragraphs or something you know start with what do start with the first chapter but don't try to finish the first chapter just you know try to take what you can digest you're never ever ever gonna digest the first chapter and not in one sitting and not at the first go not at the first go ever you're doomed if you try I swear to God folks it's not that kind of a book you can't just throw yourself at it if you're just so impatient and eager that you can't listen to anything anyone else says about it it's like it's not your kind of book you'll never appreciate it but those of you who have stuck around oh thank you for sticking around please subscribe to my channel I have great stories and fun poems that I share just amazing stories both true and historical and also some wonderful fantasies from notable historical figures in the short story world basically I'm reading the best of the best I think Jorge Borges was one of the best short story writers that history has ever known and I've read everything he's written in short stories I don't think he was as good a poet I think he was a very nominal poet but as his short stories go he was one of the very best ever and I mean he beats all of the short stories of all of them the great novelists the great novelists could not most of them could not really write short stories that was their exercise but Borges turned short story writing into a high art form and I've taken what I found to be his very very best short story and you can find it in my playlist it's called man on pink corner it's probably in my opinion it's the best short story in the world very I mean that's why I shared it I haven't gotten even a single comment on sharing that it's a strange thing so I need people like you if you like these talks then please go and explore there too of course my channel is about music and art and creative ideas and so those are the themes and as I found Finnegan's wake is a bottomless well of creative ideas and a cornucopia of genius and inspiration at that and so we'll take it from there and I think I've given you enough of a foothold on where we're at in this chapter so let's I'm gonna go back and begin with what I was reading there it's gonna make it a little longer maybe it's gonna make it a 40 to 50 minute video which is gonna take me like hours to upload on this phone I'm telling you it's a pain I really appreciate your likes I need them I'm doing this for free if you see ads I don't get money from your ads YouTube just shows ads to everybody now no matter what even if you're monetized or not so I this is free I'm publishing my stuff for free for everybody it's a labor of love so your feedback is important but please subscribe and like like I'm saying creative the rare creative people in the world it's becoming rare and rare like I said at the beginning the very rare people who even appreciate like poetry and creative writing all right so I think it starts in with a bit of a parody that's that's the thing because it what what they're saying is I lose it I lost it let's try to find it yeah yeah so they you know it's like you just just try to imagine he's weaving in a bunch of drunk Irish guys sitting in a pub slandering someone but doing so like creatively to try to make one another laugh with with the the wit and so with that slander the slander is gonna at some point delve into a sort of a you'll see like the illusion to hell and fire and brimstone and and there's a descent it's definitely he knows exactly what he's doing litter literally so and also there's a digestion of all other history and all other hero stories and hero myths they've all gone into this so don't just shrug this off as as nonsense it turns out that where you it doesn't make sense it's because we haven't gone deep enough and we haven't read enough that's the thing we haven't read enough to know and appreciate what he's talking about so I'm gonna have to have gotten rid of most listeners through this introduction and I'm doing that I think I'm gonna leave the introduction because I have to do that on purpose to keep people away from this beautiful I can't just start reading such beautiful stuff people will just ignore it everyone will and no one will appreciate it so at least in this way maybe you know a small handful of you will be able to appreciate the length I'm going to to elucidate and clarify some of this very difficult book for you and then to read it here which I'm going to start with right now yet pin my pin my end first let's let's go up to here because after that seems like the the narrative slips into a mother narrative all right yet the bumper sprinkler used to boast aloud alone to himself with the accent on it when mean fighter was a bore constructor and hoy was a lexical student parole and corrected with the blackboard trying to copy the stage engelsman he brought to their house down on shouting bravure sourcholet letter perfect culo sol loose loose valour spashe how he had been towed out of all the shicker families of the clawndikers from from pure pure ish swab sprays the land of nod shruggers country pension danubeer home and barber operas who had settled and satisfied in the capital city after it's had dumb and had dama dairy metropial arculation as sun blistered moon plastered gory weed weedling jovial literous and full ordered off the gorgeous premises in most cases on account of its smell which all cook maids eminently objected to as resembling the bombinable puzzle that welled out of the puzzle instead of chothering those maw instead of chothering those model households plain wholesome pot hooks as thing he never possessed of his Nigerian own what do you think vulgariano did but study with stolen fruit how cutely to copy all their various styles of signature so as one day to utter an epical forged check on the public for his own private profit until as just related the dustbins united scullery maids and house helps sorority better known as slutteries mauled but turned him down and assisted nature by united shooing unitedly shooing the source of annoyance out of the place all together and take totally on the heat of the moment holding one another's gawk for no one hound or scublity not even the Turk ungreakable in percent of the arminable dared with the polecat at close range and making some point-of-pointing remarks as they done so as to the perfect of sniffy your honor a boon the lio why a stunk mister here's a parentheses jimes wishes to hear from wearers of abandoned female costumes gratefully received wad mail jumper rather full pair of callots and and authored garmentaries to start city life together his jimes is out of job would sit and write he has lately committed one of the then commandments but she will now assist superior built domestic regular layer also got the boot he appreciates copies abortus cement and parentheses one cannot even begin to post figure out a stratesco ante as to how slow in reality the excommunicated drum kondriac Nate hammers really was who can say how many pseudo-stylic shami onna how few or how many of the most venerated public imposters how very many piously forged palimpsest slipped in the first place by this morbid process from his plagiarist pen be that as it may but for that light fantastic of his nosy's glow as it slid luciferously within an inch of its page he would touch at it from time to time the red eye have his fear and saddishness to ensign the colors by the beerlets in his mathness and his edu candies to out you to themselves in the cries of girl glee gumber inkware chon chamber sincero zen zabar tincture and gin nibs never would have quilled a serif to sheepskin by that rosy lampoon's a fluvious burning and with help of the simulchronic flush in his tan a guinea-gurk he gets there he scabbled and scratched and scrawled and scrubbed nameless shamelessnesses about everybody ever he met even sharing a precipitation under the idyllish terriers umbrella of a snuck showerproof wall while all over up and down the four margins of his rancid rancid shen stuff the evil smeller who was devoted to oud fader sardinopoulos used to stipple endlessly in in artistic portraits of himself in the act of reciting old nitchy abelie's monologue in interior rear hano oh nonano excel problem as ser autore qed a heartbreakingly handsome young palo with lovely ricks for the goi goils in his aisles a plaintiff's tanner voice a jucle in comb of 132 drachmas per yard from broken hill stranded estate camel breach mannings cutting a great dash in a brand new two guinea dress suit and a burled hogsford hired for a fursday evening mary potty and a lovely long pair of inky italian moose mousse starsleys glissering with boric baseline and frangipani huh how unwisperably so the house oh shia or oh shame quiva piano known as the haunted ink bottle no number brimstone walk asia in ireland as it was infested with the raps with his pen name shut seppy scraped on the door plate and the blind of black sail cloth over its wahn fwing shog in which the sole contracted son of the secret cell groped through life at the expense of the taxpayers dejected into day and night with jesuit bark and bitter bite calico hydrants of zulfur and scapula lamina by full and 40 quesicianos every day and everyone's way more exceeding and violent abuse of self and others was the worst it is hoped even on our western playboyish world for pure mouse farth mouse farm filth you brag of your brass castle of your you brag of your brass castle of your tiled house in ballet fermont niggs niggs and niggs again for this was a stingsome ink and stink quite personal to the rattle smatter of fact angles aftonon browsing their thought not a damn reeked more rare my wood the warped flooring of the the lair and sound conducting walls thereof to say nothing of the uprights and imposts were personally literature with bursts love letters tell tale stories sticky back snaps doubtful eggshells vouchers flints borers puffers amygdaloid almonds rindless raisins alphabete deformed verbiage biblical biases on peter dictas vices umbeke a hems and a haas ineffable tries at speech unassailable you omies i old hymns flew foul smut fallen lucifers vestas which had served showered ornaments borrowed brogues reversible jackets black eye lenses family jars false hair shirts godforsaken scapulars never worn breeches cutthroat ties counterfeit francs best intentions curried notes upset latin tin tacks unused mill and stumbling stones twisted quills painful digests magnifying wineglasses solid objects cast at goblins once current puns squashed quotatos sorry quashed quotatos messes of montage unquestionable issue papers cd ejaculations limerick dams crocodile tears spills ink plasmatory spits stale chestnuts schoolgirls young ladies milkmaids washerwomen's shopper keepers wives mary widows ex nuns vise abysses pro-virgins super whores silent sisters charlie's aunts grandmothers mothers-in-laws foster mothers godmothers garters trees clippings from right lift and syndrome worms of snot toothsome pickings cans of swiss condensed milk high brow lotions kisses from the antipodes presents from pickpockets borrowed borrowed plumes relaxable hand grips princess promises leaves of wine deoxidized carbons convertible collars devilly ochre doffers broken broken wafers unloosed shoe latchets crooked straight waistcoats fresh horrors from hades globules of mercury undeleted glee glass eyes for an eye gloss teeth for a tooth warmoans special sighs long sufferings of long-standing oz oz weez seas yaz yos jez nays thaws soes yeses and yeezes and yeezes to which of one has the stomach to add the breakages upheavals distortions inversions of all this chambermaid music one stands given a grain of goodwill a fair chance of actually seeing the whirling dervish tumult son of thunder self-exiled in upon his ego a night long a shaking betwixt tween white or redder horrors noonday terrorized skin and bone by an ineluctable phantom may the shaper have mercury on him writing the mystery of himself in furniture of course our low hero was a self valet or by choice of needs so up he got up whatever is meant by a stourbridge clay kitchenette and lither guard gal anew foul house for the sake of aches the umple does not fall very fall from the dumper tree which the poro melod melodious jigsmith in defiance of the uncontrollable birth preservation game and poultry act playing well lallory rook cookery nook by the dodginess of his lantern brewed and cocked and poached in an athinore whites and yolks and yolks and votes to the fruiting freddenance of mass blanca keila blanca hermana and armory a muy bien which with cinnamon and locusts and wild beeswax and licorice and carrageen moths and blaster of berries and ather mess and huster's mixture and yellowman's embrication and pinking tones patty and stardust and sinners tear a cure dint to charadan's art of panning chanting for all regale to the like of the legs he left behind with liddy fun leddie fan levin his cam traps of fermented words abracadabra calabra calorum his owls a la madame gabriel de la iglis he augs ama mistress b d b minefield his ire's a squirrel malla a la palm de siel his wee wee vee ovee and ovee a la sulfate de suree his oak urie sautee salmonee a la monsignor his suflosion of oogs with somkat ontoyast a la mer puard his pogodovies a la funela his fredegs a la trica rem in what was meant for a closet ah oh if only he had listened better to the four masters that infinted him father matthew matthew and la pe noblee and pastor lucas and padre aguilar not forgetting le teacher bowdwin ah oh his costive satan's antimony and amanganese limo limo litmias nature never needed such an alcove so when robber and mongzel the pulpic dictators on the nudgement of their legal advisors messers codex and potex and under his own ben a fiction of their pastor father flamious falconer boycotted him of all mutton suit candles and roma ruled stationary for any purpose he winged away on a wild goop's chase across the cathartic ocean and made synthetic ink and sensitive paper for his own end out of his wits waste you ask in sam hill how let manner and matter of this for these are spotting times be cloaked up in the language of blushfeld's corporates that an anglican ordinal not reading his own rude dunsky tunga may ever behold the brand of scarlet on the brow of her of babelon and feel not the pink one in his own damned cheek thank you for listening to rhythms riddle once again please subscribe and wax prolific with your comments