Punstoppable
A list of puns related to "Finnegan"
I'd like to think he lives among the muggles now and started his own building demolition business, putting to use his particular proclivity for pyrotechnics.
This episode was a ton of fun, and the culmination of a TON of work on both the General Mayhem and Deathmetal, almost all done on a variety of shows and youtube channels.
Dirthead Dave was a great host to them at the beginning of the episode and hopefully we get to see him in the Roadkill side of the universe more often.
As always great to have Tony on the show, he brings great energy no matter who he's paired up with.
The General Mayhem was great and its performance really is a testament to Freiburger's holistic project planning and the realization of his vision for the car.
The Deathmetal Charger was, less great, but still great! Always living up to its name, it was a sketchy ride the entire show.
I read that James, and to a lesser extent Nora Barnacle, wondered why people kept on speaking about Ulysses while he was working on, and publishing chapters /episodes of FW.
Do any of you think that that's true, that FW is better than Ulysses?
I am going through my yearly post-xmas Sunday drinking (long story but it is a family tradition with my cousins).
I am pouring one for a lost comrade. For the shitposter in chief. For Finnegan.
Discussion and Prompts
....one 'Ductor' [conductor/doctor/leader] Hitchcock raises his fez hat (not unlike a chalice) for silence--silence, presumably, for the singer of the coming ballad as well as for the imminent thunderword of the Loud Fellow whom we might presume to be God. And there at the turnpike [the one where Earwicker got his name, recall] the song was sung.
The pages of verses made their rounds like the Scapegoat Wren of old [see the Skeleton Key footnotes]. And Hosty spoke: "Some may call him such-and such or this-and that, but I call him Persse O'Reilly, or else nothing at all" [we are reminded of the song "I'll Name the Boy Dennis, Or No Name At All"]. Leave it do Hosty to construct fitting rhymes for a verse. Now here we go: It's coming! Glass crashes. The voice of God booms out the third thunderword: a cacophonous mish-mash of words for bad, shit, and applause (crappy and clappy, we might say). The ballad begins.
Resources
Page 44 on finnegansweb- certainly check out the hyperlink for the thunderword on this page for a useful breakdown
Thunderword #3 pronunciation tutorial and discussion by Adam Harvey. He discusses the song for a bit, but, again, we'll delve into the lyrics (as well as covers of the song!) in the next discussion thread.
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake - in a couple of footnotes, Campbell enlightens the reader re: 'rann':
"* A rann is an ancient Celtic verse form. There are many stories of Irish poets who revenged themselves against ungenerous or brutal kings by composing satires against them; and frequently (o
... keep reading on reddit ➡Discussion and Prompts
Page 43 continues with a description of the sections and cross-sections of the crowd gathered to hear the ballad begun on the previous page, with images of church-going ladies, clergymen, a Belgian and his spouse and dog, scholars, poplin manufacturers, teetotalers, and perhaps even the dream family themselves (at least, most likely Issy, Shaun, and Shem). The ballad, in a cross-cut meter preferred by one Taiocebo in his 'Casudas de Poulichinello Artahut' (The Fall of Punchinello's Bier?), stamped onto sheet of paper which is headed by the image of a ship, soon spread its "secret" (the rumor first spread by the cad in the park, we must presume, and the subject of this ballad) far and wide. To the sounds of the flute, which one Mr Delaney pulled from his hat...
Resources
Corrections of Misprints - on line 15 from top, insert comma after "who"; on line 33 from top, delete the full stops after "Mr."
Spotify playlist - several new songs or song parodies appear on this page, including "Molly Brannigan" and "A Nation Once Again"
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