Episode 15: Finnegans Wake 1.8, pp196-216

It's the most watery episode of WAKE so far, as we cruise past the 1/3 complete mark and tackle the legendary 1.8: "Anna Livia." Toby takes hubris to a whole new level by attempting to read the entire chapter, cold, without breaks, or assistance, as TJ furiously circles all of the river-name puns. We discuss remarkably knowledgeable washerwomen, the fine line between gossip and mythology, how Joyce would react to ChatGPT, and get to hear the voice of the man himself.
Water you waiting for? Dive in!
This week's readers: Toby Malone
Progress: 216 pages complete, 412 pages to go; 34.39% read.
Contextual Notes:
Chapter 1 Draft of 1.8:  ⁠  / ⁠  
Edna O'Brien: how James Joyce’s Anna Livia Plurabelle shook the literary world: ⁠https://www.theguardian.com/books/201...
Anna Livia on Peter Chrisp’s Joyce blog From Swerve of Shore to Bend of Bay: ⁠https://peterchrisp.blogspot.com/2024...
The 1117 rivers listed in Raphael Slepon's Finnegans Wake Extensible Elucidation Treasury: ⁠http://www.fweet.org/cgi-bin/fw_grep....
FinWake.com’s illuminated 1.8 with river images:  ⁠https://www.finwake.com/ch08/ch08.htm⁠
Joyce reading the chapter ⁠   • James Joyce reads “Anna Livia Plurabe...  
More on the recording:  ⁠https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions...
Not mentioned in the episode but still interesting…
Fionn O Marcaigh’s All About Anna Livia: ⁠https://storiesfromthewaterside.ie/st...
Anna Livia Plurabelle-inspired tattoo: ⁠  / ⁠  
Anna Livia Plurabella (sic) was an actress in porn films in the 1970s… ⁠https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2193280/?...
“We need an ALP statue. Make it a lady, but also make it a river.” The sculpture Anna Livia by Éamonn O'Doherty, in Croppies Memorial Park, Dublin, Ireland, known as the ‘Floozie in the Jacuzzi’ and the ‘Hoor in the Sewer’: originally it was a water feature with waterfalls in the main street of Dublin, but people vandalized it and dumped washing liquid into the water feature, flooding the streets with soap: ⁠http://www.olddublintown.com/anna-liv...
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