…Buddhist in bad times and Taoist in old age. Well I'm old enough to be a Taoist but actually the second article I sold Joyce and Taoism, shows that way. Back in 1959 I was already sympathetic to Taoism, even in my early twenties I guess I was…

…the adamses are a fabulous family well worth studying. Does that answer your question or does it just ramble around? And Joyce includes Vico's cycle theory in Finnegan's cycle theory. Come out whether Joyce is using the cycle theory seriously as a proposal…

…answer your question or does it just ramble around? And Joyce includes Vico's cycle theory in Finnegan's cycle theory. Come out whether Joyce is using the cycle theory seriously as a proposal this is the way history really operates or Joyce is just using…

…Finnegan's cycle theory. Come out whether Joyce is using the cycle theory seriously as a proposal this is the way history really operates or Joyce is just using it as a joke at the expense of the reader to show the history if you look at it that seems…

…music hall it looks more like a benny hill or three stooges show than it looks like anything rational. Who's next? Yes, while Joyce, while Joyce dropped a few hints before one thing about James Joyce That's true above all other things Joyce did not like…

…it looks more like a benny hill or three stooges show than it looks like anything rational. Who's next? Yes, while Joyce, while Joyce dropped a few hints before one thing about James Joyce That's true above all other things Joyce did not like to explain…

…than it looks like anything rational. Who's next? Yes, while Joyce, while Joyce dropped a few hints before one thing about James Joyce That's true above all other things Joyce did not like to explain himself he liked to leave riddles and puzzles. Most…

…next? Yes, while Joyce, while Joyce dropped a few hints before one thing about James Joyce That's true above all other things Joyce did not like to explain himself he liked to leave riddles and puzzles. Most of the remarks he made about Finnegan's wake…

…So I picked the calendar I like best, which is the calendar Ezra pound invented in 1921. It begins on October 31st 1921, when James Joyce wrote the last words of Ulysses. So this is now the 79 psu post scriptum Ulysses, and it's the 24th day of the…

…taking measurements. I like that model a lot and I used it in my novel schrödinger's cat in which in one universe James Joyce was pope which seems to me a possible universe so why not include it? Another approach to quantum mechanics is based on…

…first because I've only gotten partway through but it goes pretty fast, starting off with Einstein having coffee with James Joyce. Beer, a beer that's right, Einstein, It's Einstein. Well Joyce Couldn't resist that. Joyce sort of collaborated with me…

…goes pretty fast, starting off with Einstein having coffee with James Joyce. Beer, a beer that's right, Einstein, It's Einstein. Well Joyce Couldn't resist that. Joyce sort of collaborated with me on the book. So apart from the books what is happening…

…off with Einstein having coffee with James Joyce. Beer, a beer that's right, Einstein, It's Einstein. Well Joyce Couldn't resist that. Joyce sort of collaborated with me on the book. So apart from the books what is happening what's going on with reality…

…didn't know when he was quoting real authorities and when he was making it up. And I got a lot of this from James Joyce who in Ulysses has about a hundred different narratives, all of whom give you a different version of what happened, which seems…

…and a half old, and coincidence, which is a book of essays, some short some long some difficult, some easy and some about James Joyce even and he's a psychologist, has a degree in psychology and was also in the deep dark past. The playboy advisor: no…

…usual blaze of telephone lights area code 818 985 5735 985 kpfk and you can find out something or challenge Robert Anton Wilson, a James Joyce Aholic and one of the few live people that I know of who's a kozybskiite in part. He's going to be 985 kpfk…

…reading two books the same two books. No in my life I have managed to read more than two books. Have you ever heard James Joyce heard his voice? Yeah yeah I've heard a record of him reading a passage from Ulysses and a passage from Finnegan's wake and…

…the bardic tradition of the celts. Okay well we're going to take a short break during which we are all going to hear James Joyce, Oh, reading James Joyce. This is kpfk los angeles. Well, you know or don't you Kenneth or haven't I told you every telling…

…of the celts. Okay well we're going to take a short break during which we are all going to hear James Joyce, Oh, reading James Joyce. This is kpfk los angeles. Well, you know or don't you Kenneth or haven't I told you every telling has a tailing, and…

…night night tell me tale of stem of stone beside the rivering waters are hither and thithering waters are night that was James Joyce reading what's the name of that song? That's the Anna Livia Plorabella chapter and that's the end of the Anna Livia…

…a year and he figured out what an Irish fact is. He did a simple experiment he went around University College Dublin which Joyce attended, and he asked everybody he met I'm looking for the room where Joyce had the famous conversation with the dean that's…

…he went around University College Dublin which Joyce attended, and he asked everybody he met I'm looking for the room where Joyce had the famous conversation with the dean that's fictionalized in a portrait of the artist and whoever he asked would say:…

…say: ah sure it's this room right here and I had a great aunt who knew the dean and then would tell a story about Joyce. And an Irish fact is sort of something that fills a lull in the conversation or creates a laugh or keeps people from blowing…

…criticism you've probably encountered it. When William Butler Yeats was 40 years old, he was staying at the shelbourne hotel in Dublin and Joyce went up to his room and said: I hear you're 40 years old today and Yeats said that's true. And Joyce said:…

…in Dublin and Joyce went up to his room and said: I hear you're 40 years old today and Yeats said that's true. And Joyce said: too bad you're too old to be influenced by me. That story has been. How many people have ever heard that story before?…

…you who've read Ulysses when Yeats was 40 he was not at the hotel shelbourne in Dublin he was in London. When Yeats was 40, Joyce was not in Dublin or in London, Joyce was in Trieste in Northern Italy. So you see that was an Irish fact. Some American…

…not at the hotel shelbourne in Dublin he was in London. When Yeats was 40, Joyce was not in Dublin or in London, Joyce was in Trieste in Northern Italy. So you see that was an Irish fact. Some American professor asked gogarty about the relations between…

…was in Trieste in Northern Italy. So you see that was an Irish fact. Some American professor asked gogarty about the relations between Joyce and Yeats and gogarty, being a poet and a novelist as well as a surgeon spun that yarn. And now it'll go on…

…We know that there was an original for bloom. Well there were several models for bloom but the original model, the one that Joyce started from was named Alfred hunter and lived in Dublin and, like bloom was an Irish Jew. And later Joyce complicated bloom…

…model, the one that Joyce started from was named Alfred hunter and lived in Dublin and, like bloom was an Irish Jew. And later Joyce complicated bloom by putting some of his own traits in and some of the various people he met on the continent after his…

…met on the continent after his deliberate exile from Ireland. But Alfred hunter was the primordial model. Everybody interested in Joyce studies and modern Irish Literature wants to know more about Alfred hunter and nobody's ever found out anything about him…

…be promiscuous and wildly unfaithful and one night in 1904 he took home a drunken, impoverished, thoroughly embittered young man named James Joyce and sobered him up and gave him cocoa and offered him a place to sleep for the night. That's absolutely all…

…Féin. Sinn Féin is Irish for ourselves alone. It's a theme that runs all through Finnegan's wake connected with masturbation jokes. Joyce could not resist a pun like that. Sinn Féin is rumored to be virtually identical with the IRA. Gerry Adams insists…

…after years. What it comes down to is: there's a deep suspicion the British might be back some day so keep your mouth shut, Joyce said Ireland is governed by the same law as Sicily. Omerta omerta for those of you who haven't signed the blood oath of…

…jailbreak in British History. And oddly enough one of the people who assisted James Stevens in that jailbreak was in Paris when Joyce arrived there in 1903 and became a close friend of James Joyce. Everything in Ireland is connected to history. When I…

…assisted James Stevens in that jailbreak was in Paris when Joyce arrived there in 1903 and became a close friend of James Joyce. Everything in Ireland is connected to history. When I went to see Swift's Grave at st Patrick's Cathedral and stella's grave…

…for the first time. And sandy cove, where I lived when I first arrived in Ireland at one end of the street was the James Joyce Tower which was where Joyce lived for four days in October 1904 it belonged to. It was rented from the secretary of state…

…cove, where I lived when I first arrived in Ireland at one end of the street was the James Joyce Tower which was where Joyce lived for four days in October 1904 it belonged to. It was rented from the secretary of state by the aforementioned oliver st…

…to assassinate him. And it's not called the oliver st John Gogarty tower, although he had it for 20 years it's called the James Joyce Tower. Joyce only lived there four days and I used to look at the tower and imagine oliver st John Gogarty's ghost…

…And it's not called the oliver st John Gogarty tower, although he had it for 20 years it's called the James Joyce Tower. Joyce only lived there four days and I used to look at the tower and imagine oliver st John Gogarty's ghost wandering around at…

…and imagine oliver st John Gogarty's ghost wandering around at night howling unfair unfair. I told you one of his Irish facts about Joyce and yates. I'll tell you two more Irish facts that we got from gogarty. For all I know they may be true. That's…

…Here Irish Wit is seen. Where there's nothing left that's worth defense they build a magazine. Fanatic Ireland, in spite of Joyce, speaks in every ulster voice. Yeats looked for fairies in the hills Joyce contemplated unpaid bills. Yeats the realist wrote…

…build a magazine. Fanatic Ireland, in spite of Joyce, speaks in every ulster voice. Yeats looked for fairies in the hills Joyce contemplated unpaid bills. Yeats the realist wrote in fire the alchemical heart's desire. Joyce the mystic kept his head concerned…

…looked for fairies in the hills Joyce contemplated unpaid bills. Yeats the realist wrote in fire the alchemical heart's desire. Joyce the mystic kept his head concerned with coin and booze and bread, finding a thousand epiphanies in each day's banalities.…

…liffey dance in Brooklyn in a kind of trance when I was only 17 and yet believed what I had seen. I was damned by Yeats and Joyce. I swear I never had a choice at the age of 50. Then I came as any moth to any flame back to the land of Finn…

…in both lands. Romantic Ireland's all around me to perplex me and confound me. Rational Ireland we may see in perhaps a century. Joyce was often seen quite pissed. O Casey died a communist, o brien drowned his brain in stout. Beckett learned to live with…

…drowned his brain in stout. Beckett learned to live with doubt sing disappeared into the Mist. It's a long and dreary list. Yet Joyce who looked at death and doom, answered them with molly bloom. Yes I said yes I will, yes. And now perhaps I should…

…favorite and then st John. I think shaw was better at creating female characters than most male writers although not as good as Joyce. I like shaw's philosophy that we should strive for greater and greater longevity all the time. That to me is a goal…

…and high all the time. I feel that in all this chaos there's got to be some kind of intelligence. Yes what first attracted Joyce to synchronicity the concept of it? Well I'm not sure but I think the key incident was in 1909 when he went to Galway.…

…to synchronicity the concept of it? Well I'm not sure but I think the key incident was in 1909 when he went to Galway. Joyce went to Galway to see the grave of his wife's former lover, Michael Bodkin, the one who appears as Michael Fury in the dead…

…recently made into a movie and some of you may be more familiar with it than if it had just remained in a book. Joyce had a very deep obsession with Michael Bodkin. He felt that in some sense Nora loved Michael Bodkin more than him because after all…

…of bad weather every year without exception. Michael Bodkin caught pneumonia standing out there singing love songs all night and died of it and Joyce I think my reading of Joyce is his feeling was that he was not the type of man who would die for love…

…exception. Michael Bodkin caught pneumonia standing out there singing love songs all night and died of it and Joyce I think my reading of Joyce is his feeling was that he was not the type of man who would die for love Michael Bodkin was. And Joyce felt…

…reading of Joyce is his feeling was that he was not the type of man who would die for love Michael Bodkin was. And Joyce felt that he was psychologically cook olded by Michael Bodkin that there was part of Nora that Michael Bodkin would always be more…

…can be cook olded by people who aren't even around anymore, one of the most subtle psychological stories ever written about marriage. Anyway Joyce went to see Michael Bodkin's grave and maybe to dance on it I don't know. No he wanted to just look at it…

…the artist looks at can be an epiphany, a revelation. And right next to Michael Bodkin's grave was a grave that said j Joyce, and I think that's when he became obsessed with synchronicity. Yes, I've wondered about that a lot. There's so much about the…

…not exposed to the same nuclear test that bob's family was back in the 1920s you didn't know they were doing tests back then well James Joyce did? I heard about that oh uh well Dr will should I call you doctor or saint or pope or what is your actual…

…to 1880. Lord, as malaclips the younger says, everybody understands mickey mouse, few understand Einstein, Hardly anybody understands James Joyce and nobody understands emperor Norton live like him, except bob dobbs friends who doesn't need to understand emperor…

…Anton Wilson between conspiracy and enlightenment by Maximilian Netter now you are also a pope. Einstein, Great Albert Einstein and James Joyce are sitting in a small bar. What are we talking about today dear Joyce? About secrets and conspiracies and…

…Einstein, Great Albert Einstein and James Joyce are sitting in a small bar. What are we talking about today dear Joyce? About secrets and conspiracies and conspiracies, but always with calm. Einstein, It's just getting started, I'm afraid. So conspiracy…

…the madman is absolutely sure. Fnord Einstein closes his pants, washes his hands and goes back to the table where James Joyce is sitting and is just ordering a beer. Unlike Einstein, Joyce believes in everything: in democracy, in socialism and anarchism…

…his hands and goes back to the table where James Joyce is sitting and is just ordering a beer. Unlike Einstein, Joyce believes in everything: in democracy, in socialism and anarchism also in Ezra Pound's idealistic version of the fascist economy, in…

…Judaism, Christianity, Vodou astrology and last but not least, in good people. Meanwhile medium Doris dräger is sitting at the table. Joyce brought her along. Her job is to establish contact with the deceased. I really mean the deceased I don't mean aliens…

…everyone should have their own opinion. Even those who say: no that's nonsense that's okay that should also be accepted that's all right. Joyce looks at Einstein in a challenging way. Every time I go out for a drink with you you come up with some…

…with you you come up with some strange things. I don't have time to deal with your skepticism. Circumstances require quick action. Joyce lends herself back to peace. Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean you're not behind you. At the end of the…

…but also mentally too busy in his world too busy with visions, with things that could be. Stop with the illuminati nonsense, Joyce. If you continue with these occult conspiracy theories, then I see only two options for you: either you become paranoid or…

…them. Nothing is as dangerous as a mystical union. In the beginning it was the word and it was written by a monkey. And now Joyce are you the next smart monkey to write a book? Joyce looks into his beer glass, then he starts to drink, but he stops…

…it was the word and it was written by a monkey. And now Joyce are you the next smart monkey to write a book? Joyce looks into his beer glass, then he starts to drink, but he stops for a moment. It's no coincidence that you read exactly these…

…reality. But there's something that makes us humans believe in it, in this conspiracy, and I don't care what it is dear Joyce, if you don't start overhauling your reality tunnel soon, you won't find your way back you're stuck somewhere. I have to disagree…

…more about us than we do, then we give up our self determination. Then fear wins. In this case I'm completely with you, Joyce but why keep going when it's obviously nonsense? If you continue, sooner or later you'll be closer to madness than to reality.…

…maybe all of them are true or that there is something real there's a truth here there is a truth. Einstein and Joyce are certainly taken with them, maybe from beer, maybe from art, maybe from madness. Everything that is healing everything that has made…

…healing is a mental story. I have a feeling that this was a very important point for him. Suddenly, Einstein stands up and gives Joyce a slap in the Face. The medium is shocked. I have to tell you something. I almost felt like him. I had just escaped…

…a course on modern Irish Literature or modern British Literature they slip into both knows the story of how on Yeats's 40th birthday, James Joyce went to Yeats's Hotel and went to his room, knocked on the door and said: I hear you're 40 today and Yeats…

…Joyce went to Yeats's Hotel and went to his room, knocked on the door and said: I hear you're 40 today and Yeats said yes. And Joyce said: too bad you're too old to be influenced by me. Now if you want to make a real study of this, go down to the…

…me. Now if you want to make a real study of this, go down to the San Francisco Library and pull out the books on Joyce and Yeats and start looking through them and see how many books that story is in. Now that's a typical Irish fact. An Irish fact…

…pull words out like jewels from bags. When you have nothing else but poverty you learn to treasure your words I guess. Anyway, the Joyce Yates you're too old to be influenced by me exposed himself to us as an Irish fact when we compare it with public…

…public facts such as on yates's 40th birthday he wasn't at that hotel in Dublin he was in London. Or on that day James Joyce Wasn't in Dublin Either he was teaching in the berwitz language school in Trieste in Italy. Or the fact that the origin of…

…over to Ireland with this naive idea they can do on the ground research and come back with Great new insights into yates, Joyce, O Casey, all of the Great Irish Writers of the last hundred years and dubliners will tell them anything they think they'll…

…publishing of a skeleton's key to Finnegan's wake in 1944. And Robert Anton Wilson has been an avid scholar of Finnegan's wake and other Joyce Material for how many years? Well, let's see. I got turned on to Joyce in 1947, so it's 40 years now. No it's…

…has been an avid scholar of Finnegan's wake and other Joyce Material for how many years? Well, let's see. I got turned on to Joyce in 1947, so it's 40 years now. No it's 41 years, it's a long anniversary here. Yes, and do you have a particular…

…Joseph Campbell once. That was a long time ago, about almost 30 years ago and we talked about an article I had written about Joyce, called Joyce on Taoism and he was very keen on that approach to Joyce relating Joyce to eastern mysticism, and so we had…

…once. That was a long time ago, about almost 30 years ago and we talked about an article I had written about Joyce, called Joyce on Taoism and he was very keen on that approach to Joyce relating Joyce to eastern mysticism, and so we had a very cordial…

…ago and we talked about an article I had written about Joyce, called Joyce on Taoism and he was very keen on that approach to Joyce relating Joyce to eastern mysticism, and so we had a very cordial talk and then in spite of the fact we had quite a…

…talked about an article I had written about Joyce, called Joyce on Taoism and he was very keen on that approach to Joyce relating Joyce to eastern mysticism, and so we had a very cordial talk and then in spite of the fact we had quite a few friends…

…his or developing on the basis of his or how does it fit together how the overlaps occur? Well to start from Joyce. Joyce was probably the greatest anthropologist who ever lived and it's a scandal that he's not taught in all anthropology classes. And…

…his or developing on the basis of his or how does it fit together how the overlaps occur? Well to start from Joyce. Joyce was probably the greatest anthropologist who ever lived and it's a scandal that he's not taught in all anthropology classes. And it…

…who ever lived and it's a scandal that he's not taught in all anthropology classes. And it was through the study of Joyce that Joseph Campbell developed his unique approach to anthropology. The first book he wrote after the skeleton key was the hero with…

…hero with a thousand faces and then develops in his later books like the four volume masks of god and so on. But Joyce was Campbell's guide, just as he's the guide to quantum mechanics in many senses. Murray gell Mann, Nobel prize winner got his three…

…And yet Finnegan's wake seems to be an illustration of Jung's theories but it isn't. It was written before Jung developed those theories. Joyce and Jung met a few times and they didn't like each other. By the way. Joyce thought Jung thought Joyce was a…

…written before Jung developed those theories. Joyce and Jung met a few times and they didn't like each other. By the way. Joyce thought Jung thought Joyce was a possible candidate for therapy and Jung thought Joyce was a man on the edge of schizophrenia…

…developed those theories. Joyce and Jung met a few times and they didn't like each other. By the way. Joyce thought Jung thought Joyce was a possible candidate for therapy and Jung thought Joyce was a man on the edge of schizophrenia who remained on the…

…times and they didn't like each other. By the way. Joyce thought Jung thought Joyce was a possible candidate for therapy and Jung thought Joyce was a man on the edge of schizophrenia who remained on the safe side through his art if he lost his art he'd…

…if he lost his art he'd go completely wacko. And so there was his daughter too. Didn't he work with his daughter? Yes, Joyce did not wish to believe his daughter was schizophrenic. He told Jung I'm doing the same experiments with language that she is…

…could have gotten some of his ideas from or they were just synchronistic ideas? I'm inclined to suspect Jung was influenced by Joyce, because Jung Certainly had the highest regard for Ulysses he said he recommended it as a New Bible for the white race…

…Jung thought the development of the true self the higher self, required a dose of oriental thinking and feeling and he felt Joyce had brought that into western literature with Ulysses. And when Finnegan's wake started to appear Jung wrote a comment on it…

…to do a whole book about this eventually just to annoy the committee for scientific investigation of claims of the paranormal but Joyce has much better credentials as a prophet than Nostradamus has. So many things in Finnegan's wake seem to refer to events…

…the story of how Buckley shot the Russian general. Buckley was a friend of Joyce's father who served in the crimean war, which to Joyce was a symbol of all wars because it had the word crime in it. And Buckley saw a Russian general in a field and…

…his pants up again and he was an enemy officer again and Buckley shot the poor bastard dead in his tracks. And somehow to Joyce this is a symbol of the plight or the predicament or the comedy of humanity that the general is human with his pants down…

…out and he's not human anymore with the uniform on and in telling the story of how Buckley shot the Russian general, Joyce incorporates all the battles of human history. You can find every battle in every history book: the charge of the light brigade…

…the Danes in klontarf in 1014, the peloponnesian wars and well there's been long commentaries on all the military history that Joyce put into that one chapter together with all the anal jokes of which the English Language is capable. Joyce seems to…

…the military history that Joyce put into that one chapter together with all the anal jokes of which the English Language is capable. Joyce seems to have shared Freud's view that war is anal sadism. And mixed in with this there's a running theme about the…

…but it also refers to the uncertainty principle in atomic physics, atoms and fs, everything is uncertain on the quantum level and Joyce says all these quantum puns running through the chapter, not only atoms and fs but below into atoms, which takes you…

…mechanics where light is both particles and waves, and that's followed by a geranium curtain which sounds like the flower, the geranium, but Joyce spells it with a u so you've got the uranium in there. That's the trigger of the atom bomb and it runs all…

…four kings of the tarot deck and the four provinces of Ireland but it's this basic four part cycle there that Joyce calls their weatherings and their marryings and their buryings and their natural selections, which refers to all these insect and mammalian…

…marryings and their buryings and their natural selections, which refers to all these insect and mammalian patterns, the parallels that Joyce keeps drawing. He manages to combine the evolution of plants, the evolution of insects and the evolution of mammals…

…insects and the evolution of mammals into this structure and it's all part of the deepest part of the collective unconscious that Joyce is exploring in Finnegan's wake and this is the cycle of the DNA being spread through the galaxy, falling onto the…

…and then rising up from the earth at the end to return to union with the REST of the galaxy and I think Joyce is prophesying the whole space age that we're now entering. Well Arthur young also has a theory which is a cosmological unifying theory…

…controversy. There's a whole lot of overlapping going on between everybody right now. I mean talk about synchronicity. Maybe it's because Joyce has come into his time or something, because I hear the same rap actually in many different situations and I…

…because I hear the same rap actually in many different situations and I don't know that we can all say that it comes from Joyce or whether he just has brought on the time of this kind of birthing of thought. Brian O Nolan is supposed to have said…

…it seems it's not just Dublin It's a contagion, it's spreading all over the world. The bacon Shakespeare thing you mentioned in Joyce, Bacon and Shakespeare are another model of the twin theme. Bacon is the rationalist and Shakespeare is the poet but some…

…thought that it was one of a trilogy which would end with a dream sequence that was even more of another world that James Joyce was planning to write after Finnegan's wake. Do you have any feeling about that? Did you hear or think about anything of…

…wake. Do you have any feeling about that? Did you hear or think about anything of that nature? In his last two years Joyce Didn't seem to know what to do. Having done Ulysses and Finnegan's wake he was kind of puzzled what to try next. That's…

…Hindu System are a very basic part of Finnegan's wake anyway that's the four stages of evolution I was talking about that. Joyce keeps playing with the old jacobite song, charlie you're my darlin my darlin you still hear that in Ireland They're still…

…on Charles Darwin but it also refers to charlie the chimp who was one of the denizens of the Phoenix park zoo when Joyce was young. Everything in Finnegan's wake revolves around the Phoenix park zoo, which is Noah's Ark and it contains the whole history…

…that ford Madox Ford turned that chapter over to when he wanted to print part of Finnegan's wake in the transatlantic review and Joyce sent him that chapter and ford Madox Ford was able to decipher enough of it to decide that it was possibly actionable…

…he had four lawyers read it and the lawyers agreed that nobody would understand enough of it to say it was obscene. And Joyce was informed about this so he rewrote it and included the four lawyers in the chapter. So you've got the four seagulls telling…

…have one letter difference and bach liked. To write his melodies so that they were going forward and backward at the same time and Joyce wanted to show he could do the same thing in prose. But bach also means bacon in old high German and this brings…

…information of Finnegan's wake is contained in any part. It's hologramic prose. But one of the most fascinating things about Joyce is that every major Irish writer of this century has been fanatically anti Catholic. That country drives you absolutely batty.…

…you end up hating it for life. I can't think of any major Irish writer who ever got around to forgiving the church. When Joyce was dying his relatives asked if they could bring a priest to the bedside while he was in a coma and Norris said: sure…

…to the bedside while he was in a coma and Norris said: sure I couldn't do that to him while he's helpless laughter. And Joyce has managed to turn himself into this national cult which they make millions of pounds out of every year. All the tourists who…

…on agriculture and tourism and this is a large part of the tourism. So Dublin finds itself every year wrapped up in this James Joyce cloud which is making money for it which it can't resist being a poor country. And all this money is pouring in so…

…which is making money for it which it can't resist being a poor country. And all this money is pouring in so they're making Joyce into a national saint and of course they all still hate him because he was a dirty atheist and a blasphemer and he wrote…

…but they're making all this money off him. Every year they have to go through this bloomsday celebration. And now we know why Joyce picked bloomsday to be June 16th. The reason is in June 16th most Joyce Scholars won't admit it they write about it in…

…this bloomsday celebration. And now we know why Joyce picked bloomsday to be June 16th. The reason is in June 16th most Joyce Scholars won't admit it they write about it in euphemisms. The only one who is absolutely clear it's very clear in Joyce's…

…they write about it in euphemisms. The only one who is absolutely clear it's very clear in Joyce's Letters. But the only Joyce Scholar Who's written about it in unambiguous language is Richard Ellman. On June 16th 1904, Joyce tried to have intercourse with…

…in Joyce's Letters. But the only Joyce Scholar Who's written about it in unambiguous language is Richard Ellman. On June 16th 1904, Joyce tried to have intercourse with Nora Barnacle, who was a 20 year old virgin from Galway, and she refused to have…

…say it's his first date. And to somehow memorialize the Irish times always says every year: this was the first day on which Joyce and Nora walked out together. Isn't that a lovely euphemism? Well the tower is really a nice thing. They have his old…

…instrument there and some bits and pieces of his stuff that he kept. I thought that was really nice mortello tower yeah Joyce Tower and the performances were good. Actually, being one of those tourists that dumped a few pounds in Dublin, Fanula Flanagan's…

…don't I? Well you're here now. Have you done any performances in Ireland Relative to Finnegan's wake or any of the material that Joyce has done, or talks I guess you'd call them? I've lectured at trinity a couple of times but not on Joyce. I spoke…

…the material that Joyce has done, or talks I guess you'd call them? I've lectured at trinity a couple of times but not on Joyce. I spoke to the James Joyce Society in Zurich and I felt like sending copies of the program to the Joyce Society in Dublin…

…done, or talks I guess you'd call them? I've lectured at trinity a couple of times but not on Joyce. I spoke to the James Joyce Society in Zurich and I felt like sending copies of the program to the Joyce Society in Dublin with rude remarks on it but…

…but not on Joyce. I spoke to the James Joyce Society in Zurich and I felt like sending copies of the program to the Joyce Society in Dublin with rude remarks on it but I restrained myself. Is there a group wherever it is that you make your nests…

…myself. Is there a group wherever it is that you make your nests that get together? I mean do you have compadres in your Joyce Ian love study? Not lately, I haven't stayed in one place long enough. I used to have the James Joyce study groups, which…

…compadres in your Joyce Ian love study? Not lately, I haven't stayed in one place long enough. I used to have the James Joyce study groups, which were lots of fun because people would come in with the most diverse backgrounds and go into hysterics of…

…would come in with the most diverse backgrounds and go into hysterics of laughter at the jokes about their field of knowledge that Joyce was making in Finnegan's wake. I had one mathematician who I thought I knew a lot of mathematics for a layman but I…

…atrocity the English ever committed against Ireland is in Finnegan's wake, which makes it kind of funny to hear people say Joyce was an apolitical artist, right right. Well he definitely leads a kind of an intellectual rebellion, though that could be…

…with rebellion. Yes they had a contest in dunleary a couple of years ago. They were putting up a stone in a tree to honor Joyce in sandy cove near the tower, and this is based on the stone in the tree in Finnegan's wake which is another of the two…

…the dead. Everything is linked and so they put up the tree and the stone and they had a contest for a sentence from Joyce to put on the stone. People sent in their favorite sentences and I was not disappointed in my expectation that my choice was not…

…wake and one of the major supporters of bloomsday. Still, yes yes, they put ads in all the pubs with quotes from Joyce about Guinness on bloomsday and they always leave out the quote where bloom thinks about Guinness Charitable man he was endowed all…

…little bits and pieces? Yes I'm going to sound fashionable, which I hate to sound fashionable. But the most contemporary thing in Joyce, which played a major role in Campbell's Later work, he was increasingly invited to speak to groups of nuns. You know,…

…entire hierarchy is male and they're off in a corner somewhere with no place in the hierarchy. And that's a major theme in Joyce which is again tied up with. I've got to drag in my own hobby horse with synchronicity. Joyce thought Ibsen was the greatest…

…that's a major theme in Joyce which is again tied up with. I've got to drag in my own hobby horse with synchronicity. Joyce thought Ibsen was the greatest Playwright who ever lived. He loved Ibsen so much he learned Norwegian so he could write a fan…

…point. Whatever they were speaking, they were so different too. Ibsen seemed so kind of bleak in a way, and yet everything that Joyce wrote seemed buoyant. Yeah well Joyce wrote a great deal about the theory of tragedy in his 1904 notebooks and he did…

…they were so different too. Ibsen seemed so kind of bleak in a way, and yet everything that Joyce wrote seemed buoyant. Yeah well Joyce wrote a great deal about the theory of tragedy in his 1904 notebooks and he did say he ended up by deciding comedy…

…was always saying: Jim, why don't you go on the stage as a singer instead of writing these books? Nobody understands. Because Joyce had a great singing voice he almost beat John McCormick in a contest. The judges said they would have given Joyce first…

…Because Joyce had a great singing voice he almost beat John McCormick in a contest. The judges said they would have given Joyce first place except he failed the sight reading test. He had a magnificent voice and Nora wanted him to sing songs that…

…so Ibsen's Nora and Joyce's Nora are sort of two symbols of the rise of the female energy in the modern world. And Joyce Deliberately made bloom and Ulysses the antithesis in every way of the macho values. And in bloom's nightmare trial he's declared a…

…of the womanly man of the future and so on there's the whole androgyny of the modern age is a major theme in Joyce and the whole women's liberation theme is very powerfully there. That's part of the prophetic side of Joyce that I've been talking about.…

…a major theme in Joyce and the whole women's liberation theme is very powerfully there. That's part of the prophetic side of Joyce that I've been talking about. Yeah, Campbell's last piece, actually his last creative work, is going to come out in a book…

…work, is going to come out in a book called goddess. So it's there it is, and it's amazing how this theme in Joyce gets stronger and stronger. Exiles ends with the female character having a long speech and the male character only interrupts a couple of…

…a respectful situation I feel all of his interpretations at the same time as he shows the flaws you know well that's it Joyce is so Joyce is so complicated. There have been books written claiming that Joyce hated women, and the reason such books can be…

…I feel all of his interpretations at the same time as he shows the flaws you know well that's it Joyce is so Joyce is so complicated. There have been books written claiming that Joyce hated women, and the reason such books can be written is that…

…he shows the flaws you know well that's it Joyce is so Joyce is so complicated. There have been books written claiming that Joyce hated women, and the reason such books can be written is that Joyce's Characters are so complicated. Every one of his female…

…is marvelous and terribly flawed and full of imperfections. I mean that's true of his male characters too, and so even though Joyce to me appears one of the Great male feminists, his female characters are certainly not idealized any more than his male…

…appears one of the Great male feminists, his female characters are certainly not idealized any more than his male characters. Joyce was the world's staunchest enemy of idealism. But they're strong. The women are, yes, and they are tremendously flexible. In…

…colon, and I've never got the editor to explain that strange spelling to me. So this is pursuit of Finnegan's wake and other Joyce Material is becoming more and more popular. Are you getting more jobs in the line of writing about it? Yes actually I've…

…and more popular. Are you getting more jobs in the line of writing about it? Yes actually I've had quite a few things about Joyce published lately in a variety of places and do they are you addressing a bunch of different aspects or are you honing in…

…I've also done a few pieces on the theme of the Russian general and the anal territorial circuits of the brain that Joyce is exploring in that strange multi leveled parable about Buckley and the Russian general. Freud knew there was a connection between…

…It's not due to bad toilet training as Freud thought it's a deep mammalian instinct to identify excretion and territoriality. And Joyce explores that extensively. And the whole symbolism of the Russian general who was human while he was taking a crap and…

…exposing the fact that everyone's ass is hanging out in the park. He's definitely a comedian if you can catch the gist. Yeah Joyce is a comedian, but his comedy goes to the essence of existence. He's a Zen Comedian. One of the clues to Finnegan's wake…

…little bit at the end of his life without something to further I mean he had actually done his work. He never did write. Joyce never wrote anything at all after Finnegan's wake so far as anybody's been able to discover he didn't write a word. He spoke…

…in dubliners. Have you seen that yet? No I haven't. I very much like to. The dead is based on a real incident. Joyce fictionalized it. The real incident was a chap named Michael Bodkin who fell in love with Nora Barnacle in Galway. He stood outside…

…pneumonia and died. This is the most typical Irish story imaginable, but it really happened. It sounds like every Irish Melodrama and Joyce was fascinated by Michael Bodkin. I think because Joyce felt that he would not die for love himself he was too hard…

…story imaginable, but it really happened. It sounds like every Irish Melodrama and Joyce was fascinated by Michael Bodkin. I think because Joyce felt that he would not die for love himself he was too hard boiled and cynical for that. And on one deep…

…chooses mick. Mick is Michael Bodkin all michaels are called mick in Ireland That's always their nickname and nick is the devil. Or James Joyce, who won out in real life. But in the dream mick always wins out and Joyce felt that in the deep level of…

…their nickname and nick is the devil. Or James Joyce, who won out in real life. But in the dream mick always wins out and Joyce felt that in the deep level of Nora's mind mick always did win out because he died for love and was so romantic he was…

…actually wasn't he? In 1909 he went to Galway to look at Michael Bodkin's grave and the grave next to it said j Joyce, which did a great deal to increase our man's faith in synchronicity, even though Jung Hadn't named it synchronicity then but that's…

…in synchronicity, even though Jung Hadn't named it synchronicity then but that's also the theme of the dead. And the dead Joyce is portrayed by Gabriel Conroy Who's a very unhappy middle class intellectual, which Joyce might have become if he had stayed…

…also the theme of the dead. And the dead Joyce is portrayed by Gabriel Conroy Who's a very unhappy middle class intellectual, which Joyce might have become if he had stayed in Ireland, and his wife Greta who comes from Galway and the climax of the story…

…wife Greta who comes from Galway and the climax of the story is the revelation of this previous relationship with Michael Fury. Joyce changed Michael Bodkin to Michael Fury to make the symbolism of the archangel Michael come out in the flames of glory and…

…realistic story but Finnegan's wake tells the same story over in much more vivid themes. Mick becomes the archangel Michael and Joyce becomes satan being thrown down into hell or Australia with the other convicts. Also, we've seen a movie, a Finnegan's wake…

…that Peter O'Toole Biography. But very little material actually comes out in the media, given all the kind of underground popularity that Joyce is fomenting. Well they have made films of Ulysses and portrait of the earnest and now the dead. It's all for…

…it seems. Are you going to, in your next screenplay, do anything that's relevant to Ulysses or Finnegan's wake or any of the Joyce Material? Only to the extent that my style is heavily influenced by Joyce. Everything I do has a Joyce Ian Element in it…

…relevant to Ulysses or Finnegan's wake or any of the Joyce Material? Only to the extent that my style is heavily influenced by Joyce. Everything I do has a Joyce Ian Element in it well, if we were going to pursue the whole Finnegan's wake path here…

…wake or any of the Joyce Material? Only to the extent that my style is heavily influenced by Joyce. Everything I do has a Joyce Ian Element in it well, if we were going to pursue the whole Finnegan's wake path here what would be the next thing that…

…that. Synchronicity and history. It seems to me it's a very powerful thing that continues to occur that Jung talks about evidently Joyce Refers to and I would wonder if the coming together of events like that doesn't play a role in human intelligence and…

…theme that I've been concentrating on but the second major theme in Finnegan's wake is history and the philosopher that Joyce said influenced him most in writing. Finnegan's wake is Guillaume Baptiste Vico, Who's sometimes called the father of sociology. Vico…

…wake is Guillaume Baptiste Vico, Who's sometimes called the father of sociology. Vico believed there were repeats in history and so did Joyce. In the portrait of the artist as a young man Stephen Daedalus, as his name suggests, repeats the careers of st…

…st Stephen, the first martyr, and daedalus. Daedalus was locked in a prison and built wings and flew out of the prison and Joyce felt our Catholic Ireland was a prison and he escaped by building wings to fly to the continent which was relatively free…

…compared to Ireland. And the parallel with st Stephen is that st Stephen was stoned to death and that parallels the reception Joyce got from Irish Critics when his book started appearing. And Ulysses Leopold Bloom is Odysseus in the odyssey and the ghost…

…daedalus again combined with Telemachus from the odyssey looking for his father and Molly bloom is the earth goddess in Penelope. Joyce was fascinated by the parallels in history, the same pattern repeating over and over again. I have been using the word…

…in history, the same pattern repeating over and over again. I have been using the word isomorphism in my recent writings, because what Joyce is doing when he did it there was no word for synchronicity in the first place Joyce had his own vocabulary and…

…in my recent writings, because what Joyce is doing when he did it there was no word for synchronicity in the first place Joyce had his own vocabulary and his own head somewhere for these things. But he not only has jungian synchronicities in his books,…

…human evolution and Irish History compared to roman history and British History compared to American History and so on. And so Joyce saw non local connections running every way in space time. Sheldon Brevik said the unconscious as portrayed by Joyce is not…

…on. And so Joyce saw non local connections running every way in space time. Sheldon Brevik said the unconscious as portrayed by Joyce is not an area in the brains of his creatures but a network of connections that extends throughout space time. And that's…

…a hologram in the same way that the part contains the whole. So space and time, history and synchronicity are all related the way Joyce looks at it. Well do you have any little examples that you'd like to read to us that come to your mind? I'd like…

…Shem the penman is a character from Victorian Melodrama. Jim the penman is an irishman who went to Paris and became a forger. And Joyce went to Paris. Joyce was in gaelic James Joyce would be Seamus Sheehy. And so Joyce was Seamus or Shem in gaelic and…

…a character from Victorian Melodrama. Jim the penman is an irishman who went to Paris and became a forger. And Joyce went to Paris. Joyce was in gaelic James Joyce would be Seamus Sheehy. And so Joyce was Seamus or Shem in gaelic and so he took this…

…Jim the penman is an irishman who went to Paris and became a forger. And Joyce went to Paris. Joyce was in gaelic James Joyce would be Seamus Sheehy. And so Joyce was Seamus or Shem in gaelic and so he took this Victorian Melodrama as a parallel…

…went to Paris and became a forger. And Joyce went to Paris. Joyce was in gaelic James Joyce would be Seamus Sheehy. And so Joyce was Seamus or Shem in gaelic and so he took this Victorian Melodrama as a parallel to his own life. And so in Finnegan's…

…wake he treats his books as forgeries. And in this passage the theme of forgery and alchemy are intimately connected because Joyce also regarded himself as an alchemist, taking all the gross matter of the world and turning it into sublime eternal art.…

…of the world and turning it into sublime eternal art. And he also compares his work to what the priest does in the mass. Only Joyce felt he was doing it for real and the priests were faking it which is to turn the mortal into the immortal. And so…

…immortal. And so this is an alchemist or a forger, it's either a magician or a criminal. And there's also a parody of Joyce and his obsessions: the house of O'Shea or o'shame, known as the haunted ink bottle, no number, brimstone walk, Asia and Ireland,…

…you really get into the flowing of the river. Yeah, the river runs all through the book. It's on many levels and on one level Joyce seems to have used the setting an inn in chapel lizard, and that inn is right next to the river liffey. So if the…

…his inn is right next to the river. So the river runs all through the dream very realistically it's getting into his brain. As Joyce said you close your eyes when you sleep but you don't close your ears. So all the sounds of the night get into the…

…format or something of that nature. Well it's curious I've been talking about how modern quantum physics is getting more and more Joyce Ian and ethology is confirming a lot of Joyce's Insights into anal territorial behaviors and so on. And Joyce was also…

…more and more Joyce Ian and ethology is confirming a lot of Joyce's Insights into anal territorial behaviors and so on. And Joyce was also a major influence on marshall McLuhan, as McLuhan always admitted. Every book McLuhan wrote he talks about how much…

…a major influence on marshall McLuhan, as McLuhan always admitted. Every book McLuhan wrote he talks about how much he learned from Joyce and the whole McLuhan view of how media affects the mind. Finnegan's wake has a whole history of media in it from…

…until about eight years after Finnegan's wake was published and no television sets in Irish bars until about 20 years later and yet Joyce has a television set in the bar. But McLuhan got the whole idea of the global village and the effect of media on…

…and the evolution of mind reflected in and being fed back to by the evolution of media. Well that's in Finnegan's wake. Joyce developed that out of Vico, the sociologist who studied how languages how songs. In Vico's Theory songs led to languages and…

…original Italian no I don't have the language, but Vico has played a large role in my thinking because of his influence on Joyce. I wanted to understand Vico Better and it seems to me Vico was almost unintelligible for 200 years after he wrote and it's…

…understand Vico Better and it seems to me Vico was almost unintelligible for 200 years after he wrote and it's only due to Joyce and the revolution in the social sciences in the 1960s caused by LSD. That's the great open secret in America the popular…

…sciences took LSD and it vastly altered their theories of how mind operates and what society is. And LSD produced a very Joyce like view which you find in a lot of radical sociology and especially in ethno methodology. Garfinkel's books are very Joyce Y.…

…like view which you find in a lot of radical sociology and especially in ethno methodology. Garfinkel's books are very Joyce Y. The whole Garfinkel School of ethno methodology leads right into Castaneda's work. Castaneda Actually studied with Garfinkel and…

…Actually studied with Garfinkel and Garfinkel was on Castaneda's Ph D committee so you've got a very interesting chain from Vico to Joyce to Garfinkel by way of LSD to Carlos Castaneda to a lot of the current weirdness. Well what would you think would…

…clock, a theatrical group did all the events that occurred at 3 o clock in Dublin in 1904 and that's the chapter where Joyce emphasizes synchronicity most. He's got 19 events going on in 19 parts of Dublin Intercut with each other and all connected in…

…was always behind the others just like in Joyce's book and you didn't know whether you were in 1982 or 1904 or what was Joyce and what was reality. That was a great day. How could something like that be staged for Pennington's wake? You know make an…

…Joseph Campbell had to put out there in the key and also for us to be a little bit more educated in Pennington's wake and Joyce, since we're all sort of budding fans, and so thank you very much. Is there anything that you would like to say? Yeah I'd…

…and so thank you very much. Is there anything that you would like to say? Yeah I'd like to repeat again my favorite line from Joyce: what liberation is it to cast out the political tyranny of England and remain under the intellectual tyranny of Rome?

…religion, the Carol Schwarzenegger of feminism, the Colin Keller of art and music, the Nelson Mandela of white supremacism, the James Joyce of swing set assembly manuals, the lee Bruce of funerals, the Salvador Dali of assembly line workers and, of course…

…find that within Finnegan's wake, in chapter 7, you will find that a character named Shem the penman which is James the penman James Joyce the author is writing a book inside the book. And where is he writing it from? No number, brimstone walk Asia in…

…in a way that at least shook our reality a bit. Well I think a lot of my literary techniques derive from James Joyce, and it's very interesting that a lot of people writing about computers and literature claim Joyce was writing in hypertext before…

…literary techniques derive from James Joyce, and it's very interesting that a lot of people writing about computers and literature claim Joyce was writing in hypertext before hypertext existed. Finnegan's wake is a sort of hypertext all on one page you don't…

…to another person seeing the guy with the dog. So is that hypertext or was it just serializing realities? Well I feel that Joyce is sort of somewhere between hypertext and postmodernism. He was way the hell ahead of his own time and I think I first…

…a university somewhere back East I think in North Carolina. I looked it up and by god I am a postmodernist but so was Joyce. I didn't set out to be a postmodernist like Joyce I just don't believe in the omniscient narrator who sees all, knows all and…

…I looked it up and by god I am a postmodernist but so was Joyce. I didn't set out to be a postmodernist like Joyce I just don't believe in the omniscient narrator who sees all, knows all and tells the reader the truth. You can't find anybody like…

…and to all sorts and all sorts of bugs bunny in the popular art. They're all related and writers in my tradition, like Joyce and going back earlier Swift and so on they were trickster figures, so they were hermetic. As a matter of fact what's called…

…no event can be described impartially you know, as it happened objectively. Yeah well I got that as I said from Joyce but also from Korzybski, the founder of general semantics, which shows how everybody creates their own reality tunnel. Whatever you look…

…work's been very valuable. What are you working on now? A book called the tale of the tribe which is about Ezra pound, James Joyce and internet. That's a very very very terse description of it. It deals with a lot more than that. Those are the three…