We find ourselves at the end of Book Two, and you know what that means: another ever-popular recap episode! Using the mind-bending brilliance of the László Moholy-Nagy Finnegans Wake Diagram as a jumping-off point, Toby and TJ try to rank the chapters of Book 2, nostalgically reconsider Night Lessons, and compare the text to a disparate collection of cultural touchstones. Topics may include, to varying levels of detail: JJ Abrams, Luigi Pirandello, Riverdale, The Master and Margarita, the Berliner Ensemble, Punchdrunk's Sleep No More, Passing Strange, ChatGPT, andThe Sound and the Fury. Join us in the temporary high that is generated when two readers assume that hubris isn't really a thing, and that surely they're well past the hardest part now...
(Apologies for the sound quality on Toby's mic, it's an ongoing problem that will be fixed)
This week's chatters: Toby Malone, TJ Young
Progress: 399 pages complete, 229 pages to go; 63.54% read.
Contextual Notes:
Toby on the New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/38306/toby-malone
TJ on the New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/9739/tj-young
László Moholy-Nagy's visual representation of Finnegans Wake
https://signalvnoise.com/posts/633-lszl-moholy-nagys-visual-representation-of-finnegans-wake
real_finnegans_wake on the chart https://www.instagram.com/p/CRkpUlXs5YT/
real_finnegans_wake on the graph https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci4aO_8sh0f/
S. by Doug Dorst and JJ Abrams https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/j-j-abrams/s/9780316201643/?lens=mulholland-books
Sleep No More: https://mckittrickhotel.com/events/sleep-no-more/
Passing Strange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V7jjjshvBE
Shakespeare’s Sonnets, at the Berliner Ensemble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnCvotmFtYM
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