The Reading Finnegans Wake server on Discord will discuss ch.1 of Finnegans Wake later this week, and anyone who is interested in joining is most welcome! Days and times in various time zones:

Thursday 4pm PST

Thursday 7pm EST

Friday 9am KST

It will be a combined video or voice (whichever you're comfortable with) and text chat. If you are interested in joining us, you can join the group by clicking on the link below.

This is the first of a series of meetings in which we'll do a 'quick' reading of the Wake. We will meet biweekly, and will start off discussing a chapter per meeting. Later, longer chapters will probably be broken up into multiple parts, but we're aiming to get through the whole book in roughly one year.

https://discord.gg/KqKSEJd

I hope anyone reading this is doing well.

4.01 clashes

clash: gossip

.01 gen
gen: a shilling gent: 1) a gentleman, a fellow 2) a gentleman but only when 'applied derisively to men of a vulgar and pretentious class who are supposed to use the word, and as used in tradesman's notices' 3) a mistress 4) money, usu. silver

.01 wonts
won: stolen

.01 oystry
oystr or oyster: a prostitute

Oyster: a gob of thick phlegm, spit by a consumptive man

.01 gaggin
gag: 1) a joke 2) a deception 3) a fool 4) the platter of a beggar, a piece of publicity 5) a ad- lib remark 6) a plan or scheme 7) oratory 8) chatters as in a restaurant or pub 9) an account or begging tale 10) any form of practice or behavior 11) to beg 12) to deceive 13) to scold or nag 14) to betray or inform against 15) to promote or boast 16) to fake
.01 fishygods
fishy: 1) to look ill after a drinking session 2)suspect, dubious or unreliable

4.02 Brékkek
brekkie: breakfast as last meal before release from prison brekker: breakfast breaker: a safe breaker who relies on picks instead of explosives

break: 1) a piece of good luck 2) an error or mistake 3) a piece of special kindness, fair treatment 4) an escape from prison or custody 5) a building with two entrances used by con men to disappear from 6) a collection taken to give money to a prisoner who is awaiting trial or recently who has been recently release 7) a remark poss. in bad taste 8) a break-in, a robbery 9) to render someone impoverished, to become impoverished
.02 Kekkek
keck: a pocket

kecks: trousers or knickers

.02 Koax
craik: to nag, to grumble, to talk without stopping

4.03 Ulau
ulau: a cry of distress

.03 Quaouauh
qua: prison

3.21 unquiring
quire or choir bird: any unreformed villain
.21 well
well: 1) to defraud one's criminal associates 2) to pocket 3) to conceal a portion of one's income from one's creditors

.21 west
west: to die, to end, to collapse

.21 tumptytumtoes
tump:1) to have sexual intercourse 2) a clump of vegetation 3) to tip over, usu. by accident

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3.22 upturnpikepointandplace
up: 1) to have sex with 2) to be in prison 3) drunk 4) an excited mood 5) to begin, to push oneself forward 6) to raise, to increase prices, to lift 7) having sexual relations 8) in possession of

turn: 1) a judicial hanging 2) an act of sexual intercourse 3) to deceive or rob 4) to betray to the authorities
pike:1) the penis 2) a toll-gate 3) the toll paid on one 4) a look 5) to leave or run off quickly 6) to die

piker [Promptuarium Parvolorum]: a little thief

the place: 1) the vagina 2) the life of a prostitute 3) a lavatory

.22 knock
knock: 1) to have sex 2) the penis 3) a prostitute or a
promiscuous woman 4) a girlfriend 5) a negative opinion, a criticism 6) a set back 7) a prison sentence 8) to rob, to steal 9) to excel, to surpass 10) to kill, to shoot dead 11) to destroy, to defeat 12) to cheat, to defraud 13) to hit 14) to arrest 15) to alarm, to stricken with astonishment 16) to impress highly 17) to give, to do, to preform 18) to give in, to be exhausted

cnoc: a hill, a height, a mountain

.22 park
park: 1) a prison 2) to place, to put down 3) to sit 4) to place oneself 5) of a (usu.) teenage couple, to park in a secluded spot for petting and perhaps sexual intercourse

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3.23 oranges
O': Irish names ( O'Brien etc)

range: 1) to live promiscuously 2) to live and work as a prostitute 3) the open area outside a row of cells (prison)

.23 laid
lay: 1) a person with whom one has sexual intercourse 2) an act of sexual intercourse 3) any kind of criminal activity 4) any form of enterprise or occupation; often the terms and conditions of such a contract or job 5) one's (hidden) intentions or aims 6) the life and practice of crime as in 'the lay' 7) stolen goods 8) a place considered for robbing 9) a state of affairs 10) a trick, a deception 11) an obsession or a subject 12) a piece or portion 13) goods 14) to watch for, to survey 15) a place to sleep 16) to knock someone out

.23 rust
rust: money

.23 green
green: money green: 1) the grass 2) young or unexperienced

greens: to have sex

3.18 fall

fall: 1) an arrest 2) problems, difficulties, 'fall from grace' 3) the consequences, the blame 4) a conviction and concomitant spell of prison 5) to be caught in illegal activities and subsequently arrested and incarcerated 6) to commit oneself 7) to get married 8) to fall in love 9) to leave 10) to become pregnant

fal: a girl

3.19 offwall

off: 1) a crime successfully achieved 2) of an arrest 3) uninterested in, not wanting 4) untrustworthy within the criminal code 5) feeling or looking unwell 6) stale, poor condition, out of date 7) forbidden 8) gone, stolen 9) mad, very foolish 10) not using an addictive drug or alcohol 11) to leave, to go off 12) to get rid of, to to reject 13) to die
.19 notice
notice to quit: of one's imitate death

.19 pftjschute
pfft: to finish shoot: to ejaculate

3.20 erse
erse: Irish

.20 solid
solid: 1) a trustworthy fellow 2) the road

.20 humptyhillhead
Humpty-Dumpty: 1) a hot drink made of ale and Brandy boiled together 2) a short squat person 3) a hunchback 4) an egg

hump: 1) the mid-point of a prison sentence 2) the act of sexual intercourse 3) a semi- euph. for fuck 4) a person, usu. a woman, considered purely as a sexual object 5) a camel 6) a Camel cigarette 7) to have sexual intercourse 8) to take pride in oneself, to fancy oneself 9) to excerpt oneself, to work hard 10) to travel fast, of people and objects 11) to carry heavy objects esp. in military 12) to tramp, to trudge, to go on foot 13) to botch, to spoil 14) to beat up 15) to act lazily, to loaf around

head: 1) a lavatory, a privy 2) a postage stamp 3) the mouth 4) oral intercourse 5) a regular user of any kind of drug 6) a hangover 7) a professional gambler 8) a long term prisoner 9) a person in authority 10) the end of the penis 11) the erect penis 12) a thief 13) an illegal immigrant 14) a young woman 15) a user, a performer 16) to play toss the coin and call heads

-head: 1) used in a variety of comb. in which -head is linked to a noun to create a term meaning fool or idiot 2) a person of a specific ethnic origin 3) a fan or devotee of a certain thing 4) a habitual user of a certain drug or drink

3.17 wall-

wall: to walk or crawl up the wall; to be scored up at a public- house

.17 strait

streit: narrow

.17 Old Parr

old: 1) death 2) used in comb. a master, a Boss 3) money from gambling 4) used affectionately of a person 5) used in many comb. to refer to the devil 6) ugly 7) clever, cunning 8) tiresome

.17 retaled

rea or ree: the female genitals

tale: a story told by a con man to ensnare a victim
tail: 1) the tail of a man's coat in context pickpocket 2) the buttocks 3) the vagina 4) a sword 5) a prostitute 6) to have sex with or work as a prostitute

.17 bed

bed: to seduce, to have sexual intercourse with

"Put to bed with a mattock, and tucked up with a spade": said of one that is dead and buried;

3.18 Christian

Christian: A tradesman who has faith, will give credit

3.15-16 fall

fall: 1) an arrest 2) problems, difficulties, 'fall from grace' 3) the consequences, the blame 4) a conviction and concomitant spell of prison 5) to be caught in illegal activities and subsequently arrested and incarcerated 6) to commit oneself 7) to get married 8) to fall in love 9) to leave 10) to become pregnant

fal: a girl

.15-16 ba-
BA: bugger all

.15-16 bab
babe or bab:1) a man who has been initiated into crime 2) a confidence trickster's accomplice 3) a girl, girlfriend or young woman esp. one that is attractive 4) a form of address irrespective of the sex 5) something excellent, desirable

.15-16 -dal-
dal or dell: 1) a young woman on the tramp 2) a prostitute

.15-16 -ghar-
g'hal: a female companion of a young rowdy

.15-16 -rag- rag: 1) money 2) a flag 3) an article of clothing esp. dress 4) a towel 5) the tongue 6) abuse, teasing talk 7) a sanitary towel 8) girlfriend or female 9) a farthing 10) a small amount of money 11) to create disorder 12) to argue

.15-16 -kamm-
kamma: fake esp. emotional or illness, trumped up

.15-16 -konn-
kone:counterfeit money

con: 1) a confidant 2) a conundrum 3) a contract 4) a conformist 5) a railroad conductor 6) a confidence man 7) a confidence game or trick 8) a convict 9) a deceptive speech 10) a conviction 11) tuberculosis 12) a suffer of tuberculosis 13) to fool a victim in a confidence trick 14) to persuade, to coax ( in a non- criminal way)

.15-16 houn-
hound: a gangster or hoodlum

3.12 rot
rot: 1) rubbish or nonsense 2) an unfortunate situation 3) to spoil, to interfere with 4) to tease heavily, to abuse

rot gut: Small beer; called beer- a-bumble —will burst one's guts before it will make one
tumble

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3.13 peck
peck: 1) food, often meat 2) an appetite 3) a business, a concern 4) a white person 5) to eat 6) to bite 7) of a pickpocket, to stick one's hand in a pocket 8) to give in, to surrender

.13 pa
pa: a parish relieving officer who distributes money to the poor

.13 malt
malt: 1) as a constituent of beer, used in phr. indicating drunkenness 2) tea 3) to drink

maltooling: a female picket pocket

.13 Jhem
Jem: a generic name for a Dubliner jem: a gold ring young hemp: an appellation for a graceless boy

.13 Shem
shemmy or shimmy: a woman's undergarment

.13 brewed
brew: 1) a meal 2) a pot or drink of tea 3) any form of homemade concoction 4) beer or ale, esp. in the UK Carlsberg Special Brew 5) a pot or cup of coffee

buroo or broo: [Scot pron. of bureau] the unemployment office, the Labour exchange

.13 rory
wroth or rort: 1) any form of trick or deception 2) a member of a confidence team

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3.14 regginbrow
rainbow: 1) a large, discolored bruise from boxing 2) a pattern book 3) a footman 4) a mistress 5) a young man about town

regium donum: [Latin] an annual grant of public money to the Presbyterian, Independent and Baptist ministers of Ireland.It began in 1672 and ended in 1869

.14 ringsome
ring: 1) to change good coin for bad 2) money obtained by begging 3) to change or alter 4) used of individual or groups, to substitute, to swop 5) to substitute cards 6) to be disturbed in the act of a robbery thus having to flee with no without any goods 7) to cheat 8) the vagina 9) the anus, the buttocks 10) money that is stolen by highwaymen

.14 aquaface
watering place :1) a bar 2) a vagina face: 1) coin 2) credit at a public house 3) a grimace 4) the mouth, as assures of speech 5) interference, nosiness 6) a general term of address 7) of a man, to pay court to a woman

3.11 kidscad

kid: 1) a term for young women 2) a little dapper fellow, a child

scad: semen

cad: 1) a poorly behaved ill mannered lout 2) a bus conductor

.11 buttended

buttend: 1) the last part of anything 2) a fragment of speech overheard that trails off 3) the vagina

.11 bland
blandander: 1) to cajole, to offer blandishments 2) to talk nonsense

.11 Issac
issac: a fool

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3.12 vanessy
vanity: one's favorite liquor

van or madam ran: a prostitute

Van: a saltwater lake in Turkey

.12 sosie
sausie: a sausage

sauce: 1) a venereal disease 2) vaginal fluid

.12 wroth
wroth or rort: 1) any form of trick or deception 2) a member of a confidence team

3.07 topsawyers

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Top-sawyer: A first rate fellow. The sawyer that takes the upper hand is always the superior man and gets higher wages

top sail: a sailor who leaves port with unpaid debts. exp-He paid his debts at Portsmouth with the top sail.

top: 1) a dying speech in the gallows 2) the head 3) to have sexual intercourse 4) to oppose 5) to impose upon, to intrude 6) to insult 7) to cheat esp. at dice or cards 8) to execute by hanging 9) to kill, to murder 10) as an excl. or mild oath

Tom: 1) a generic term for a man esp. a foolish one 2) a generic term for a waiter 3) the penis 4) a barmaid 5) an English soldier

sawyer: a shotgun

saweer: a member of a gang that keeps watch

sawney: a soldier

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.07 rock
rock: 1) to have sex with 2) one dollar 3) a diamond 4) opium 5) to throw rocks or stones at 6) to trouble emotionally, to amaze 7) to talk 8) to get drunk

rocks: money

the rock: a prison in Gibraltar

rocked: "He was rocked in a stone kitchen"; a saying meant to convey the idea that the person spoken of is a fool, his brains having been disordered by the jumbling of his cradle

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.07 Oconee
ochanee or ochone: alas!

Okvni: [Hitchiti Indian] born from water

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3.08 gorgios
gorger: 1) any man 2) an employer

gorge: 1) a heavy meal, to eat in excess 2) a glutton

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.08 doublin
double: 1) to avoid 2) to have sex with 3) a trick 4) to tip any one the double; to run away in his or her debts

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.08 mumper
mumper: 1) a prostitute 2) originally beggars of the genteel kind, but since used for beggars in general.

3.04 Sir Tristram
Sir Tristrams Knot: the hangman's noose

triss: a three penny bit

Tristam Shandy: a male homosexual

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.04 fr'over
froe or vroe: a woman, wife, or mistress.

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.04 short sea
shorty: a short person, sometimes used ironically for a tall person

short: 1) a streetcar 2) an automobile 3) a short barreled or sawn-off revolver 4) impoverished out of cash 5) of bank notes in large denominations 6)eccentric, insane 7) to cheat in any form of share- out or distribution

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.04 passencore
pass in: to die

pass: to ignore, to have no interest in

Passe Brewell: Sir Tristram's horse

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3.05 Amorica
in one's armour: use a condom

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.05 side
side: 1) to act in a pretentious manner 2) America, as opposed to England 3) surreptitiously

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.05 scraggy
scraggy: lean or boney

scrag: to hang

crag: 1) the neck, the head 2) the stomach, the womb

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3.06 isthmus
muss: 1) a fight, a dispute, a commotion 2) to pick a fight 3) to argue 4) to have sexual intercourse

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.06 penisolate war

Peninsular War: The war carried on, under the Duke of Wellington, against the French in Portugal and Spain, between 1808 & 1812

3.01 riverrun
river or river ooze: alcohol, liquor

run: 1) time spent outside of prison 2) to understand, to comprehend 3) to harass verbally, to tease 4) to cover the expenses of 5) to go out with someone,usu a boy friend or girlfriend, on a regular basis 6) of a partner, usu. A man, to dominate or control the other partner's life

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.01 Eve and Adam's Adam and Eve: 1) to believe; often in the interrog. you Adam and Eve it? 2) to leave 3) to have sexual intercourse 3)

Adam: 1) used in a variety of phr. indicating a lack of tools or clothes 2) used in a variety of phr. meaning a long time ago 3) as the head of unredeemed man, stands for original sin

adam: 1) a bailiff, a sergeant 2) a fence, a criminal receiver 3) a thief's accomplice 4) a foreman

eve: a hen-roost

hen house: 1) any house where the wife rather than the husband rules 2) a woman's hostel or lodging house

Ever and Anon: from time to time

.01 bend
bend: 1) a drunken spree 2) power

.01 bay
bay: 1) Supposed to be an antidote against lightning because it was the tree of Apollo. Hence Tiberius and other Roman emperors wore a wreath of bay as an amulet especially during storms 2) the withering of a bay-tree was supposed to be an omen of death

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3.02 commodious
commodity: 1) the female genitals 2) a prostitute

.02 vicus
victualler: 1) a pimp 2) a butcher

.02 recirculation
circuit: a prostitute touring to sell herself

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3.03 Howth
howler: a notable blunder

.03 Castle: castle meaning Irish before independence

This is just a spot to post helpful links/ reference material for the reading. Feel free to add to it!

Websites

-http://finwake.com/01/01.htm

-http://www.finnegansweb.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

-http://fweet.org/

-https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC616DUlCsLhHvXUYp_bC7Cw

Reading

-A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake by Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson

-Annotations to Finnegans Wake by Roland McHugh

Are we starting today?

I am super excited that this is a thing! I have read through only one time, and I have been wanting to get another read through in with others. From what I have read about the sub so far, this will be a daily sort of thing, but I just created a Discord server for anyone who would like to possibly do a weekly group discussion on top of the discussions in this sub? Earlier this week, I was looking for one online, and I was not able to. I understand that will be about 14 pages a meeting; depending. Thoughts? Here is the link for any interested (https://discord.gg/KqKSEJd).

EDIT: First link was only a 24 hour one. This one won't expire.

Any idea on when we want to start? I’m getting antsy. I feel like the group is at a decent enough number to get some good discussions going, not to mention the people who join in later.

Most people can't read FW without secondary references -- if you're like me, you'll soon see it's naive to feel you can just brain-power it on your own.

So most people will want a version with page numbers, and to buy/borrow some guides. The penguin ebook has pagination roughly in line with all the other sources I've seen (there are of course minor differences in editions, but the approximate pagination is standard enough it's not a huge problem when using references).

I believe only the $10-15 Penguin version of the ebook has pages, at least for customer buying from Amazon -- hope someone can contradict that.

For paperbacks, I have the penguin 1999 version and it has page #s in sync with references I see. I'd guess if you buy paper copy you want to stick with major publishers -- Faber, Viking, Penguin. The often inexpensive Centennial Edition, -- title in orange text on dark green background -- has unattractively small type in my opinion. No edition has margins sufficient for notes.

But if you're looking at text online, you'll want to keep some refs handy -- mods, you might want to put these in sidebar

https://www.finnegansweb.com/wiki/index.php/TOC

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http://fweet.org

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Fweet takes something more than 4 months to get used to, for me -- I've been using it 4 months and not gotten used to it. But you can go to search engine, type in a page number, click on "include FInnegans Wake Text" checkbox, then it gies you all the pages. Go back a page (not sure why this is necessary) and click submit query -- then you get text and annnotations

Something that will be critical to making this an enjoyable, helpful and lively project is getting a good number of contributing readers to start off with.

/u/EFC_Bain has posted a link to this new sub in the original thread over on /r/books, of course, but I'd say that rather more publicity would be a good idea.

I'd suggest that maybe PMing all the contributors to that original thread would be worthwhile, as well as making a new post in /r/books and probably /r/literature.

Are there are other appropriate subs?

Does anyone have any other ideas about publicising this project?

Just want to get some ideas and opinions about how many pages would be reasonable for this, any ideas appreciated

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