Ep.005: the prankquean (p. 19:20-24:15)

https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episodewe’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading 123 to 125 to conclude Chapter 5 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig. Richard’s reading (p.123:11-125:23) was recorded with a live audience at the Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, on 21 October 2024. For atranscript of this episode, please visit ⁠⁠https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast⁠⁠. “James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, an official charity in Canada and the USA. To support our work, please ⁠⁠visit us online to make acharitable donation and join our mailing list⁠⁠. To get in touch, email us at ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠ — we’d love to hear from you. This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support! Thank you to the artists for this episode: Richard Harte (Reader); William Bembridge (Sound); Sandi Becker (Stage Manager); Adam Seelig (Director, Music Arrangement, Piano), Tyler Emond (Bass, Recording at Ghost Town Studio Toronto), Jinu Isac (drums). Thanks to JohnShoesmith, Special Collections Librarian, to David Fernández, Head of Rare Books and Special Collections, and to their colleagues at the Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, as well as to our wonderful live audience. Thank you to everyone at the Irish Consulate in Toronto. And thankyou to Production Consultants Cathy Murphy, Andrew Moodie. Thank you for listening! Mentioned: Boston, Massachusetts, ALP, The Letter, suggestive envelope, Belinda the Hen,The Letter and treasure found in muck, Ardagh Chalice, Book of Kells, punctuationless letter, epistolary tropes, Picasso and Braque’s cubism, tea stain, blurry photography, Kate, “Lead, kindly fowl!”, championing womankind, Obama cheers on Harris, she writes, thunderword #5, Women and Literature, Eve and Adam and snake, synopsis. Resources: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Transcript for this episode⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, including the text of Finnegans Wake.Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many freecopies of FW to read online or download, e.g. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠finwake.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide”⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of each chapter by Danis Rose. Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982. Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009. Adaline Glasheen, Third Census of Finnegans Wake: An Index of the Characters and Their Roles, University of California Press, 1977. John Gordon’s annotations on his ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Finnegans Wake blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Raphael Slepon, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠fweet.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996.

https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episode we’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 119 to 123 from Chapter 5 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig. Richard’s reading (p.119:10-123:10) was recorded with a live audience at the Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, on 21 October 2024. For atranscript of this episode, please visit ⁠⁠https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast⁠⁠. “James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, an official charity in Canada and the USA. To support our work, please ⁠⁠visit us online to make acharitable donation and join our mailing list⁠⁠. To get in touch, email us at ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠ — we’d love to hear from you. This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support! Thank you to the artists for this episode: Richard Harte (Reader); William Bembridge (Sound); Sandi Becker (Stage Manager); Adam Seelig (Director, Music Arrangement, Piano), Tyler Emond (Bass, Recording at Ghost Town Studio Toronto), Jinu Isac (drums). Thanks to JohnShoesmith, Special Collections Librarian, to David Fernández, Head of Rare Books and Special Collections, and to their colleagues at the Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, as well as to our wonderful live audience. Thank you to everyone at the Irish Consulate in Toronto. And thankyou to Production Consultants Cathy Murphy, Andrew Moodie. Thank you for listening! Mentioned: Boston, Massachusetts, ALP, The Letter, suggestive envelope, Belinda the Hen,The Letter and treasure found in muck, Ardagh Chalice, Book of Kells, punctuationless letter, epistolary tropes, Picasso and Braque’s cubism, tea stain, blurry photography, Kate, “Lead, kindly fowl!”, championing womankind, Obama cheers on Harris, she writes, thunderword #5, Women and Literature, Eve and Adam and snake, synopsis. Resources: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Transcript for this episode⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, including the text of Finnegans Wake.Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many freecopies of FW to read online or download, e.g. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠finwake.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide”⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of each chapter by Danis Rose. Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982. Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009. Adaline Glasheen, Third Census of Finnegans Wake: An Index of the Characters and Their Roles, University of California Press, 1977. John Gordon’s annotations on his ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Finnegans Wake blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Raphael Slepon, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠fweet.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996. Cited: Sir Edward Sullivan. The Book of Kells. London, The Studio, 1914. Brendan O Hehir. A Gaelic Lexicon for Finnegans Wake. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1967.

https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episode we’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 114 to 119 from Chapter 5 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig. Richard’s reading (p.114:21-119:9) was recorded with a live audience at the Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, on 21 October 2024. For atranscript of this episode, please visit ⁠https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast⁠. “James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, an official charity in Canada and the USA. To support our work, please ⁠visit us online to make acharitable donation and join our mailing list⁠. To get in touch, email us at ⁠[email protected]⁠ — we’d love to hear from you. This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support! Thank you to the artists for this episode: Richard Harte (Reader); William Bembridge (Sound); Sandi Becker (Stage Manager); Adam Seelig (Director, Music Arrangement, Piano), Tyler Emond (Bass, Recording at Ghost Town Studio Toronto), Jinu Isac (drums). Thanks to JohnShoesmith, Special Collections Librarian, to David Fernández, Head of Rare Books and Special Collections, and to their colleagues at the Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, as well as to our wonderful live audience. Thank you to everyone at the Irish Consulate in Toronto. And thankyou to Production Consultants Cathy Murphy, Andrew Moodie. Thank you for listening! Mentioned: Boston, Massachusetts, ALP, The Letter, suggestive envelope, Belinda the Hen,The Letter and treasure found in muck, Ardagh Chalice, Book of Kells, punctuationless letter, epistolary tropes, Picasso and Braque’s cubism, tea stain, blurry photography, Kate, “Lead, kindly fowl!”, championing womankind, Obama cheers on Harris, she writes, thunderword #5, Women and Literature, Eve and Adam and snake, synopsis. Resources: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Transcript for this episode⁠⁠⁠⁠, including the text of Finnegans Wake.Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many freecopies of FW to read online or download, e.g. ⁠⁠⁠⁠finwake.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide”⁠⁠⁠⁠ to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of each chapter by Danis Rose. Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982. Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009. Adaline Glasheen, Third Census of Finnegans Wake: An Index of the Characters and Their Roles, University of California Press, 1977. John Gordon’s annotations on his ⁠⁠⁠⁠Finnegans Wake blog⁠⁠⁠⁠. Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Raphael Slepon, ⁠⁠⁠⁠fweet.org⁠⁠⁠⁠ William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996. Cited: “Rauschenberg’s Cultural Canvas,” by Hank Burchard, Washington Post, 1991-05-12.

https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episodewe’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 109 to 114 from Chapter 5 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig. Richard’s reading (p.109:1-114:20) was recorded with a live audience at the Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, on 21 October 2024. For atranscript of this episode, please visit https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast. “James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, an official charity in Canada and the USA. To support our work, please visit us online to make acharitable donation and join our mailing list. To get in touch, email us at [email protected] — we’d love to hear from you. This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support! Thank you to the artists for this episode: Richard Harte (Reader); William Bembridge (Sound); Sandi Becker (Stage Manager); Adam Seelig (Director, Music Arrangement, Piano), Tyler Emond (Bass, Recording at Ghost Town Studio Toronto), Jinu Isac (drums). Thanks to JohnShoesmith, Special Collections Librarian, to David Fernández, Head of Rare Books and Special Collections, and to their colleagues at the Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, as well as to our wonderful live audience. Thank you to everyone at the Irish Consulate in Toronto. And thankyou to Production Consultants Cathy Murphy, Andrew Moodie. Thank you for listening! Mentioned: Boston, Massachusetts, ALP, The Letter, suggestive envelope, Belinda the Hen,The Letter and treasure found in muck, Ardagh Chalice, Book of Kells, punctuationless letter, epistolary tropes, Picasso and Braque’s cubism, tea stain, blurry photography, Kate, “Lead, kindly fowl!”, championing womankind, Obama cheers on Harris, she writes, thunderword #5, Women and Literature, Eve and Adam and snake, synopsis. Resources: ⁠⁠⁠Transcript for this episode⁠⁠⁠, including the text of Finnegans Wake.Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many freecopies of FW to read online or download, e.g. ⁠⁠⁠finwake.com⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide”⁠⁠⁠ to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of each chapter by Danis Rose. Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982. Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009. Adaline Glasheen, Third Census of Finnegans Wake: An Index of the Characters and Their Roles, University of California Press, 1977. John Gordon’s annotations on his ⁠⁠⁠Finnegans Wake blog⁠⁠⁠. Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Raphael Slepon, ⁠⁠⁠fweet.org⁠⁠⁠ William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996.

https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake Welcome to James Joyce’s divine and delirious comedy, Finnegans Wake. This episode, number 24, is a special one because joining us from Berkeley, California will be scholar Nina Beguš, who is using Finnegans Wake to shape an unusual AI named “FinneGAN.” Nina is interviewed by Adam Seelig, director of the Finnegans Wake film series produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company. For a transcript of this episode, please visit https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast. “James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, an official charity in Canada and the USA. To support our work, please visit us online to make a charitable donation and join our mailing list. To get in touch, email us at [email protected] — we’d love to hear from you. This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support! Music for this episode was arranged and performed on the piano by Adam Seelig, with Tyler Emond on bass and Jinu Isac on drums, recorded at Ghost Town Studio in Toronto. A big thank you once again to special guest Nina Beguš. Thank you as ever to the team at the Irish Consulate in Toronto. And thank you to Production Consultants Cathy Murphy and Andrew Moodie. Thank you for listening! Mentioned: Nina Beguš, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Humanities, Stanford vs Cal (Berkeley), Frederick Wiseman, “At Berkeley” (film), FinneGAN, “imagitation,” latent spaces, GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks), large language models (LLMs), “What Finnegans Wake Teaches Us about AI,” “Latent Spacecraft Brains GANs Finnegans,” humanistic interpretability, eight-word experiment, whale communication, nonce words, child language acquisition and invention, children and language in Joyce (Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses “Oxen of the Sun”, Finnegans Wake), Mother Goose, Humpty Dumpty, “the writing of the night,” dream language, pre-verbal language, Metahaven, Ricardo Petrini, Gašper Beguš, University of California Berkeley, Whisper speech recognition, deep fakes (of cats), “We inhabit a locked hole but can we use it?”, William Wordsworth’s “poetic spirit” in children, Shaw’s Pygmalion, Irene Pepperberg’s Alex the parrot, Richard Harte, Pip Dwyer, Sweny’s Pharmacy Dublin, interdisciplinary science and arts. Resources: Transcript for this episode, including the text of Finnegans Wake. Cited: “What Finnegans Wake Teaches Us about AI,” Paul Massari, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,2026-02-26. “Latent Spacecraft Brains GANs Finnegans,” Nina Beguš, Gašper Beguš, Metahaven, Ricardo Petrini; Antikythera,https://latentspacecraft.antikythera.org/, 2026-03-02.