The Terence McKenna lecture is pretty blooming good too. Also check my talks at my FW Playlist and offer me some pier-review. Many returns. Or tell me a tale of stem or stone
This is a really wonderful discussion about my favourite author and very charming indeed. By the way, us Dubliners pronounce Howth not to rhyme with mouth but to rhyme with throat!
Yah having finally listened to the whole thing I think this is the best finnegans wake talk on youtube despite the difficulty of hearing anything. The point at 2:01:45 about the fractalish nature of finnegans wake is fantastic.
Re Alan's piece on humour and laughing at the judge who falls down the stairs: Kevin Bridges talks about how if people laugh when you fall down you know you are still a young person. But when they run over to help and ask are you OK you know that you have crossed the barrier into old age.
It's like learning to swim, best to dive right in and struggle to stay on top while simultaneously surrendering to the flow, and once you're treading water, you find that all the work is fun, like in flyfishing the more work you put in, the easier and more rewarding it becomes, and the more comfortable, the more personal it becomes as one dissolves into its infinities of flow, so that when you drift out of the Liffey into the origin of ocean at the end/beginning, so naturally one becomes the flow and one weeps. Harold Bloom worships at the alter of the bard, as Joyce did or does, but for us PoMoes, Joyce is our bard, and as Tom Robbins put it so pithily, we used to read the Old and the New, the Vedas and the Sutras, the mystics and the gnostics, but now we read the Wake, the bible of our bard, of our consciousness. Alan Roberts is a psychic tour guide, he's so bubbling over with love and enthusiasm, which is what we need for students of the Wake. Too many readers, often good ones, are turned away by the immensity of the project, but this is the essential book of our times (post Shakespearean), and any real reader can read this book; it is eminently readable, but begin at the beginning, with Chamber Music, then Dubliners, the Portrait (Hero too if you will it), and the miscellanies before Ullyses, and bone up on Carrol, Swift, and Trollope, Flaubert and Henry James, all mythology, read everything you can of the whole Western Canon before wading into the Liffey. But then you will float, and you will never be the same. The Wake is the most psychedelic trip a human can take in these times without taking (other) psychedelic drugs.
+jimreid5 In order to what, prepare to read the Wake? No, one does not have to read anything prior to enjoying the Wake, but yes, the Bible will enrich one's Wakening. I have read the Old and New Testaments cover to cover, and I dip back into Genesis and Poetry every chance I get, avoiding the pathological passages such as when God orders the Hebrews to murder women and children.
Everything is meaningful, everything is meaningless . . . the play's the thing! Lovely discussion, very charming. This video throughout sounds like it was recorded over a background track of the Liffey flowing by.
Hi Alan, thanks for the video, very interesting lecture. Have you watched Joseph Campbell's Lecture on James Joyce named "The wings of art"? I think you would enjoy it.
i wonder where does this "conquest of the outside" thing that is manifest in anglo-saxon literature come from? that sensitivity for the endless "changing flow of things" that gilles deleuze kept talking about ? mitser roberts ? any particular cultural reason for it ?
This is the best thing i've seen since devlinsfirst loved livvy
The Terence McKenna lecture is pretty blooming good too. Also check my talks at my FW Playlist and offer me some pier-review. Many returns. Or tell me a tale of stem or stone
I found it rather ringsome on the aquaface.
Finnegan's microphone
This is a really wonderful discussion about my favourite author and very charming indeed. By the way, us Dubliners pronounce Howth not to rhyme with mouth but to rhyme with throat!
Yah having finally listened to the whole thing I think this is the best finnegans wake talk on youtube despite the difficulty of hearing anything.
The point at 2:01:45 about the fractalish nature of finnegans wake is fantastic.
A great talk. I’ve sketched a few talks too, but I defer to other thinkers like these.
Re Alan's piece on humour and laughing at the judge who falls down the stairs: Kevin Bridges talks about how if people laugh when you fall down you know you are still a young person. But when they run over to help and ask are you OK you know that you have crossed the barrier into old age.
It's like learning to swim, best to dive right in and struggle to stay on top while simultaneously surrendering to the flow, and once you're treading water, you find that all the work is fun, like in flyfishing the more work you put in, the easier and more rewarding it becomes, and the more comfortable, the more personal it becomes as one dissolves into its infinities of flow, so that when you drift out of the Liffey into the origin of ocean at the end/beginning, so naturally one becomes the flow and one weeps. Harold Bloom worships at the alter of the bard, as Joyce did or does, but for us PoMoes, Joyce is our bard, and as Tom Robbins put it so pithily, we used to read the Old and the New, the Vedas and the Sutras, the mystics and the gnostics, but now we read the Wake, the bible of our bard, of our consciousness. Alan Roberts is a psychic tour guide, he's so bubbling over with love and enthusiasm, which is what we need for students of the Wake. Too many readers, often good ones, are turned away by the immensity of the project, but this is the essential book of our times (post Shakespearean), and any real reader can read this book; it is eminently readable, but begin at the beginning, with Chamber Music, then Dubliners, the Portrait (Hero too if you will it), and the miscellanies before Ullyses, and bone up on Carrol, Swift, and Trollope, Flaubert and Henry James, all mythology, read everything you can of the whole Western Canon before wading into the Liffey. But then you will float, and you will never be the same. The Wake is the most psychedelic trip a human can take in these times without taking (other) psychedelic drugs.
+jimreid5 In order to what, prepare to read the Wake? No, one does not have to read anything prior to enjoying the Wake, but yes, the Bible will enrich one's Wakening. I have read the Old and New Testaments cover to cover, and I dip back into Genesis and Poetry every chance I get, avoiding the pathological passages such as when God orders the Hebrews to murder women and children.
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beautiful lecture, as expected from someone deeply interested in the wake
Dude!!!!
at 2:04:55 twas so beautiful what you said, I burst into spontaneous clappter! thank you for the wonderful lecture
I only wish the sound was louder.
stevenator0281 Same. I like the content, but the sound quality is bumming me out.
Gave it a thumbs down because I couldn't hear it.
Evey heard of a thing called headphones
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@@Scaw That's a really mature response.
This is brilliant
MORE FINNEGANS WAKE STUFF PLEASE!
I’ve given a couple talks too, well worth a gander, my friend in my FW Playlist
My favourite book of all-time.
You must be a poser that is trying to sound deep and unconventional/
he took it to the next level and made the lecture as hard to understand as Finnegans wake
How infinitely interesting
Yes a dark seed book has come into a blooming tree
Everything is meaningful, everything is meaningless . . . the play's the thing! Lovely discussion, very charming. This video throughout sounds like it was recorded over a background track of the Liffey flowing by.
+not2tees Hah! It does sound like that. And play certainly is The Thing.
Hi Alan, thanks for the video, very interesting lecture. Have you watched Joseph Campbell's Lecture on James Joyce named "The wings of art"? I think you would enjoy it.
This is like watching religious people wanting to believe in something...
very very enjoyable❤
Great intro to FW ❤
Anyone have a copy of the handout / text they use in class?
surely there's some comparison between the parallax theme and the last sentence linking with the first
Great topic, but you can't hear ANYTHING. Please redo with better quality production.
i wonder where does this "conquest of the outside" thing that is manifest in anglo-saxon literature come from? that sensitivity for the endless "changing flow of things" that gilles deleuze kept talking about ? mitser roberts ? any particular cultural reason for it ?
Interesting question 🤔
Fiona read beautifully
Please god let somebody write the subtitle for this😭 I do not know English that well
50:09 - I was surprised when he mispronounced "Howth Castle".
I'm either deaf or I can't hear.
58:24 - he’s got a what? he’s literally a what? I can’t hear what he says here
Don't forget the dunn connection
Can't hear what he's saying.
Who's genius idea was it to film somebody talking without decent microphone...
It's not the best but still perfectly listenable