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  • Waywords and Meansigns: Recreating Finnegans Wake [in its whole wholume]

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    Recreating Finnegans Wake [in its whole wholume]

    by Waywords and Meansigns


    Published May 4, 1939
    Usage Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
    Topics Waywords and Meansigns, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Audiobook, Music,Roratorio, Anna Livia Plurabelle, Dublin, Ireland, Irish literature
    Track listing:
    Finnegans Wake is organized into four books. Roman numerals indicate the book, Indo-Arabic numerals indicate the chapter within that book. Chapter names are italicized, followed by the names of musicians. Finnegans Wake is circular, so you can start listening wherever. Mariana Lanari and Sjoerd Leijten suggest beginning with Book IV. To locate a particular passages of the text, use http://www.trentu.ca/faculty/jjoyce/ and http://fweet.org/


    I.1 – Fall, pp. 3-29 – Mariana Lanari & Sjoerd Leijten, with Erik Bindervoet

    I.2 – The Humphriad I: His Agnomen and Reputation, pp. 30-47 – Robert Amos; Chelidon Frame; Alan Ó Raghallaigh

    I.3 – The Humphriad II: His Trial and Incarceration, pp 48-74 – Greg Nahabedian

    I.4 – The Humphriad III – His Demise and Resurrection, pp. 75-103 – Un monton, torero; with Charlie Driker-Ohren & Walker Storz 

    I.5 – The Mamafesta, pp. 104-25 – Tim Carbone 

    I.6 – Riddles: The Personages of the Manifesto, pp. 126-68 – Kevin Spenst

    I.7 – Shem the Penman, pp. 169-216 – Belorusia

    I.8 – Anna Livia, pp. 196-59 – Dérive


    II.1 – The Children’s Hour, pp. 216-59 – Street Kids Named Desire; with Derek Pyle, Parker McQueeney, Zach Leavitt & Samuel Nordli

    II.2 – The Studies, pp. 260-308 – Liz Longo & Izzy Longo, with Leo Traversa

    II.3 – The Stories: Tavernry in Feast, pp. 309-82 – Hayden Chisholm

    II.4 – Mamalujo, pp. 383-99 – Ryan Mihaly


    III.1 – Shaun before the People, pp. 403-28 – Gareth Flowers

    III.2 – Jaun before St. Bride’s, pp. 428-73 – Steve Fly, with William Sutton

    III.3 – Yawn under Inquest, pp. 474-554 – Peter Quadrino, Jake Reading & Evan James

    III.4 – Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker and Anna Livia Plurabelle: Their Bed of Trial, pp. 555-590 – Graziano Galati


    IV.1 – Dawn: Return to the Beginning, pp. 593-628 – Mariana Lanari & Sjoerd Leijten; with Eloísa Ejarque, Grace Kyne-Lilley, & Erik Bindervoet.


    Additional track credits:
    Track 1: Produced and performed by Mariana Lanari and Sjoerd Leijten, with special thanks to guests reader Erik Bindervoet (pp.13-18, pp. 21-24).
    Track 2: Robert Amos recorded by Robert Martin.
    Track 3: Keyboards, Voice, Guitar, Bass, and Drums by Greg Nahabedian. Recorded and mixed by Greg Nahabedian and Paul Schmelz. 
    Track 5: Tim Carbone (fiddle, guitar, drone, tan, keyboards, samples), Andy Goessling (zither), Phil Ferlino (piano). Recorded by Tim Carbone and mixed by Don Sternaker and Tim Carbone. 
    Track 6: Background arrangement by Josh Pitre, featuring a Stravinsky circus polka and two ragtime pieces
    Track 8: Dérive is Greg Nahabedian (keyboard, voice), Paul Schmelz (guitar, voice, keyboard), Noah Jacques (bass, voice), Paul DeGrandpre (drums, voice). Recorded by Paul Schmelz. Mixed by Dérive and Paul Schmelz.
    Track 9: Recorded by Derek Pyle and Zach Leavitt. Sound collage by Derek Pyle, featuring many of the musical allusions found in Joyce’s text. With Derek Pyle (bass, voice), Parker McQueeney (piano, voice), Samuel Nordli (mandolin, violin, and viola) and Zach Leavitt (guitar, bass, voice).
    Track 10: Leo Traversa on bass. Recording by Taylor Roig. 
    Track 11: Recorded by Robert Nacken at Nucamusic Studios in Cologne and by Hayden Chisholm in the Moers Residence house, and at Sant Vicenc beach in Mallorca
    Track 14: William Sutton reads pp. 429-42 469-73; Steven ‘Fly’ Pratt reads pp. 443-68. Drums, turntables, guitar, arrangement, production, recording in Amsterdam by Steve Fly. Mastered by Tim Egmond at Ei-Complex Studios, Amsterdam.
    Track 15: Produced by Jake Reading & Peter Quadrino. Executive producer: Evan James. Recorded and mixed by Jake Reading at Casa de Feelgood. Additional vocals by Evan James and Melba Martinez. 
    Track 17: Produced and performed by Mariana Lanari and Sjoerd Leijten, with special thanks to guests readers Eloísa Ejarque (pp. 610-612), Grace Kyne-Lilley (pp. 613-615), and Erik Bindervoet (pp. 13-18, pp. 21-24).



    Derek’s acknowledgments: 
    Waywords and Meansigns would not be possible without the support of many people. Like the Joycean maxim says: Here Comes Everybody. Thanks to the fwread listserv, especially Peter Quadrino, Peter Chrisp, Roman Tsivkin, as well as Adam Harvey and Mariana Lanari; your collective knowledge of Joyce is astounding. Marie Broadway, Jake Tozer, Sam Nordli, and Emma Pampanin co-hosted the Finnegans Wake parties that inspired this project. Zach Leavitt and Chelsea Westra co-hosted the parties of the future. Elaine Thomas, Dylan Muhlberg, the Amherst Irish Association, Jacqui Wise, Krzysztof Bartnicki, Mike Moran, Mike Medeiros, Jason Gross, Rebecca Hanssens-Reed, Billy Mills, and the James Joyce Gazette played pivotal roles spreading the word about this project, through press coverage and otherwise. Thanks to Mackenzie Libbey, and Michael Robbins, for their support throughout. Thanks to L. Brown Kennedy and Annie G. Rogers for first introducing me to Joyce. Special thanks to Mark Traynor and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin, and to Robert Berry. 

    Infinite thanks to the project contributors, and all who channel the spirit of James Joyce.



    Run time 31 hours, 8 minutes, 11 seconds
    Language und

    Steven James Pratt

  • Ernest Fenollosa 2014 and TTOTT

    “Ezra Pound was no starnger to Oriental art when he met Mary McNeil Fenollosa, the widow of the American Orientalist Ernest Fenollosa (1853-1908), in London in late September 1913.”–Zhaoming Qian, Orientalism and Modernism (1994)  pg. 9.

     

    Fenollosa 2014 and TTOTT

    by Steve Fly

    “Fenollosa [1853-1908], wrote an essay on
    “The Chinese WrittenCharacter as a Medium for Poetry” which vastly influenced
    Ezra Pound and, through Pound, modern poetry generally;
    said essay also anticipates some formulations of General Semantics
    and NeuroLinguistic Programming [NLP], and foreshadows
    modern critiques of “linear” and “alphabetical” thinking. –Robert Anton Wilson, Recorsi 2005.

    Ernest Fenollosa (1853-1908) found a place in the chain of human innovation, and the lineage of modernism as defined by Dr Robert Anton Wilson in his unfinished project called ‘the tale of the tribe’. Please read some of my others posts trying to get at TTOTT and what it all means to me.

    Fly On The Tale Of The Tribe: A Rollercoaster Ride With Robert Anton Wilson

    by Steven James Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/gOGNKyV

     

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  • The birth claws and death of santa by Steve Fly

    THE BIRTH OF SANTA

    snowdon falls

    king kong is out hunting

    mynah birds

    blizzard strikes

    kong shelters in a barn

    where merry mary

    is giving birth next to

    a mare also giving

    birth to two colts

    the next morning

    kong awakens

    at new-grange

    the barn has gone

    child and colts remain

    child is called santa

    arguments begin

    in the village about

    who will be foster

    father

    a decision is made

    on several dwarfs

    SANTA AND HIS LITTLE WEAPONS

    santa aged 9

    overhears dwarf nick

    speaking to his pals

    about the future police

    state

    santa decides to

    design some survival

    weapons

    kong’s weapon of

    brute strength is the only

    one capable of withstanding

    the santa spasm

    age11 santa returns

    from America where

    he raged for 90 days

    still in his battle fury and

    everyone afraid

    women reveal breasts

    perform bum shaking

    and twerk

    to ease the frothing frenzy

    santa catches

    glance of a large pair

    he stumbles

    and quickly townsfolk

    wrestle him into a

    trash can full of cold

    deer piss

    which explodes

    HOW SANTA GOT HIS CLAWS

    at 14 santa

    begs to join the boy-scouts

    but is refused and runs off

    hiding in chimneys

    and barns

    santa arrives at a

    football field

    he joins the game

    takes the ball to his feet

    and nobody can get it

    back from him

    eventually the other boys

    gang up and attack santa

    he goes into a red

    hulk spasm and

    beats them all upside

    the head

    shortly after

    king kong spots santa

    from the hill

    and invites him to his

    solstice barbecue

    but kong forgets

    after going fuzzy over

    a girl called fay

    and when santa arrives

    at the kong palace

    a guard dog is loose and

    attacks santa

    thinking him a red

    faced intruder

    santa kills the hound

    in self-defence

    throwing the dog down

    a well

    santa makes a vow to take

    the dogs place as

    guardian of the palace

    a druid poet called penny

    announces santa

    will have a new name

    santa claws

    SANTA SCRUBS UP PRETTY GOOD

    his hair was 

    blue at the base

    blood-red crimson

    in the middle and

    a crown of emerald

    green

    a triple helix

    flaying out

    shining strands rappelling

    the shoulder

    78 neat red-blue curls

    around his neck and head

    covered with one

    hundred crimson

    threads encrusted with

    gems and weird fungus

    four dimples in each cheek

    yellow green crimson

    and blue

    seven bright pupils

    eye-jewels in each

    his feet have seven

    toes and each hand

    seven fingers

    his nails shaped

    like a hawks claw

    SANTA CLAWS AT DEATH

    santa was fed reindeer meat

    stolen from reduced food

    isle at Tesco by an old crone

    tired and on the road

    santa dropped his guard and lost

    his magical red

    spasm power

    his reindeer and

    his sleigh-driver were killed

    outright by police horse

    meat poison

    santa was badly wounded

    and entered the death trip

    he tied himself to a rock

    covered in lichen

    he starts the perilous journey

    through the bardo

    questioning death

    and the beyond

    immortality and presents

    flash-backs descend on his brow

    the well

    the dead dog

    suddenly a crow lands

    on his shoulder and whispers

    the word rudolph

    in his ear

    which kills him with grief

    and dispair

    li sao

    for sorrow

    after one brief

    reincarnation in a

    bottle of sugar

    santa came back again

    in a cauldron

    when a group of

    kids started spitting

    and singing to the

    bubble-full elixir

    new santa climbs out

    the cauldron

    only to be attacked

    by more angry dwarves and

    brutally cannibalised

    his blood was drained

    into two separate socks

    frozen and put into storage

    in the old kitchen next to

    a dark wooden barn

    as the snowdon falls

    –Steve fly agaric 23
    Amsterdam

    23/12/13

    Steven James Pratt

  • 360 Panorama Flight of the navigator

    In London, on my last visit next to Victoria station sits a square glass metal and mirror area with a few shops and some offices The mirrored object presented a great chance for a pano’ love, steve fly http://www.360cities.net/embed_iframe/flight-of-the-navigator
    Flight Of The Navigator in London

    Steven James Pratt

  • MAYAN MAXIMUS ARKESTRA

    Steve The Fly is following up on the amiri Baraka treatise comparing the work of Charles Olson & Sun Ra with this episode featuring recordings by the principals plus selections by Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Archie Shepp, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, and William Butler Yeats.–John Sinclair.

    http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/mayan-maximus-arkestra-fly-by-night-with-steve-the-fly-38/

    Steve The Fly is following up on the amiri Baraka treatise comparing the work of Charles Olson & Sun Ra with this episode featuring recordings by the principals plus selections by Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Archie Shepp, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, and William Butler Yeats. – See more at: http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/mayan-maximus-arkestra-fly-by-night-with-steve-the-fly-38/#sthash.6iPrfemY.dpuf
    Steven James Pratt

  • shape spacestation mission schedules by shunning election machine pressures


    Do not despair,
    there are words to put your hair on end
    tip top tailored trips to smooth out
    and curl the end of the world into a Bob.

    Recorsi, the eternal returnsche
    cosmo-constantly
    bring a bitter light

    stretch the imagination to its limit.
    to make the tale true enough
    comeback, the field of

    thought
    emerging again, amplified once more
    make it new

    shape spacestation
    mission schedules by
    shunning election machine
    pressures

    www.raw360.net

    Steven James Pratt

  • Facestuck

     

    Facestuck by Steven James Pratt (3/08/12)

    1.
    Oh my god, those faces all literally glued to the screen, right across the planet, literally super-glued to the glass plasma crystal screens, unable to move. Eyes look sideways in terror at the images playing in front of them. Gangs of pixels assemble together in self-organized configurations: the words ‘Cheeky mouthy idiots’ repeated in endless fonts and colours. The images of others also stuck to the screen.

    A few brave idiots in the initial panic of finding their face stuck to the screen pulled themselves off, leaving a good part of their face still stuck to the screen like a rare pork chop. Many of these people died as a result of their injuries, and some remained still half stuck to the screen, yet with mutilated mouths and bits of flesh dangling around the chin that made eating exceedingly difficult.

    “Next the phones, engage.” A voice said.

    All mobile phones around the world were now stuck to their users face and the ear in particular, plus the original phone call was interrupted with a voice repeating the word ‘yes’. Scenes of equal chaos and horror soon followed, enhanced by the images from any camera relaying live feeds, broadcasting the distressed individuals pain and anguish between the literally billions of victims.

    2.
    Some proposed the facestuck virus acted upon the carbon 60 molecule, triggered by certain vibrations quickly developing a highly dangerous and sticky surface, impossible to part from organic materials such as skin once contact is made. Grafting, which results in a permanent scar is a necessary process, but due to the Billions of victims many have spent decades with their devices stuck to their faces and ears.

    An underground black market arose in cheap surgical….

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  • 21/12/2012: The end of capitalism starting with Coca Cola

    The recent news from Bolivia, concerning their decisions to kick out the coca cola company due to violence, corruption and unrestricted finance capitalism, makes me sit up and listen and engage once again with the 2012 phenomena.

    Here we have the kind of tipping point that could begin a new era of corporate responsibility and humanity waking up to the horrors of unrestricted finance capitalism and discovering ways to say no, and kick out the culprits from theor community and/or country, protecting the citizens from any nefarious impact and damage, such as that damage Coca-Cola have, to South America in particular, but the entire world and it’s citizens generally.

    Fly Agaric 23 retains a special symbiotic relationship with coca-cola and the coca-cola company, and a special symbiotic relationship with Father Christmas. Both of these mysterious western capitalist phenomena employ the ‘red and white’ color scheme, as does the ‘fly agaric: Amanita Muscaria mushroom. Take note. Fly Agaric grows without charge in the wilderness of natural abundance. Father Christmas and Coca-Cola require a multi Billion Dollar all-around-the-world system of propaganda, lies, deciet and promotional campaigning to keep up their mythological capitalist show.

    I represent this news from Bolivia, and hope to help volley the message far and wide. I have added a description of Belching out the Devil by Mark Thomas, for some further insight into the coca-cola curse. Peace, steve fly agaric 23 (acrillic)

    Amsterdam, Sensi Empire (2/8/12)

    “Bolivia Set To Banish Coca-Cola To Mark Mayan End Of Capitalism

    For most Americans, Bolivia is a third world South American country last robbed by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. However this impoverished nation is making headlines due to its Minister of External Affairs recent announcement that the Coca-Cola Company, one of the world’s largest corporations, is to be booted out of there by year’s end.

    David Choquehuanca, the minister in question, explained that Coca-Cola will be expelled from Bolivia on the same day that the Mayan calendar enters a new cycle–December 21. According to Choquehuanca, the date marks the end of capitalism and the start of a culture of life in community-based societies. In order to celebrate that, Bolivia’s government is already planning a series of events that will take place at the Southern Hemisphere’s Summer Solstice on La Isla del Sol, one of the largest islands in Lake Titicaca.

    “The twenty-first of December 2012 is the end of selfishness, of division. The twenty-first of December has to be the end of Coca-Cola and the beginning of mocochinche (a local peach-flavored soft drink),” Choquehuanca told reporters at a political rally for Bolivia’s president, Evo Morales. “The planets will line up after 26,000 years. It is the end of capitalism and the beginning of communitarianism,” he added.

    It’s already been rumored that Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez, will follow suit, encouraging his country to ditch the American beverage for soft drinks produced locally.

    It’s curious that Bolivia decided to forbid Coca-Cola in its territory, considering that one of the soft drink’s main ingredients is said to be coca extract (Coca-Cola refuses to confirm that, saying that this is part of their secret formula.) — http://www.forbes.com/sites/andersonantunes/2012/08/01/bolivia-set-to-banish-coca-cola-to-mark-mayan-end-of-capitalism/

    “But it’ll make zero difference to Mark Thomas’s tireless campaigning. Stand-up comic turned agent provocateur and writer, in his latest book Belching Out The Devil, Thomas travels the world to expose the flaws of the Coca-Cola business system: a bottling plant in Colombia where trade unionists are routinely murdered by paramilitary death squads, child labour in fields surrounding a sugar mill in El Salvador and the unfathomable decision of opening a plant heavily reliant on water in an area of India already prone to drought.

    The Coca-Cola Company absolves itself of any blame because on paper it doesn’t actually own any of these franchise plants or the independently owned sugar mill. All it does is manufacture the syrup ingredient to make the fizzy pop. “All of this stuff is about Coke’s tentacles and the way it works,” says Thomas. “It draws these lines of demarcation between responsibility.” —http://thequietus.com/articles/00687-coca-colonisation-mark-thomas-on-coke

    Steven James Pratt

  • Amanita symbiosis system

     As Mushrooms Evolve to Live With Trees, They Give Up DNA Associated With Decomposing Cellulose
    ScienceDaily (July 18, 2012)
    “…if you’re going to actively form a cooperative relationship with a tree, you probably shouldn’t simultaneously be trying to break it apart and eat it. But it’s a very tricky dance to form these kinds of tight, cooperative interactions, and I think this work shows there is a cost associated with that. You have to change, you have to commit, and it can become a sort of gilded cage — these mushrooms are very successful…” —http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120718192047.htm

    Steven James Pratt

  • NAUGHTIES DECADE 2001-2011

    DECADE 2001-2011

     

    INTRODUCTION

    Hi I finally got around to posting this, it’s been hanging around for a while. I hope you’ll forgive my errors, any feedback will be well received.

    So friends…which events seem important to you? Which would you choose to define any given period of time? How do you make sense of them, what conditions nurtured them, which human interventions and which natural disasters led to the events you pick?

    If we are to make sense and meaning of history, and sanity–a risky endeavour in these times of global Internet but one which any poet worth the name might pursue–then a ‘poem including history‘ of the last decade seems a good place to start to me. (after writing this introduction I learned that Mark Zukenburg and facebook plan to release a ‘timeline’ application that allows for a similar chronological study of events. However History also moves in cycles, and non-chronological spirals, it is of my opinion.

    The launch of Wikipedia in February of 2001 has impacted this writing a great deal due to the simple list of some events deemed worthy of inclusion by the Wikipedia commons group, that are made available for all to see and make sense of at your own risk. The risk seems to me to be somewhat reduced when attention is paid to the subjective nature of perception, and to methods such as ‘operational language used by some-but-not-all scientists and ‘E-prime’ and its variants, used by some-but-not-all linguists.

    When put Into chronological order it becomes increasingly difficult for me to avoid drawing conclusions based on the ordering, one thing leads to another, or so it seems to a linear oriented mind set. The question remains: which ‘events’ should become pivotal ones and which shall be relegated to the footnotes or relegated all together? How did the author or protagonist come to choose such events based on which values and principle, what ordering system, what right knowledge? How many are justified by later events and how many need revision, considering, let’s say; the Wikileaks exposures of the period 2007-2010, or the News Corp. phone hacking racket?

    Silent But Dudley: Black Country Blues

    by Mr Steven James Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/7KhqHcL

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