🫧 enjoying your pipes 🫧

"Houses, lines of houses, streets, miles of pavements, piledup bricks, stones. Changing hands. This owner, that. Landlord never dies they say. Other steps into his shoes when he gets his notice to quit. They buy the place up with gold and still they have all the gold. Swindle in it somewhere."

Attack on Titan far exceeded my expectations. Although influenced heavily by Evangelion and the story is admittedly quite depressing, AoT's worldbuilding is far more sophisticated and its treatment of the lives of the characters as well as the politics and metaphysics of its universe is excellent.

New blog post: Fuga Per Canonem Is a Sirens a fugue or should we just fugue-gettaboutit? We'll be Bach with another episode soon! #booksky

Shed Window at Night

Holy s'moly, this is amazing! www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Bonus Ep. 41 - The General Slocum We discuss the June 15, 1904 General Slocum disaster. Listen to or watch the full episode at patreon.com/barnaclecast

▪️ in search of the lost castles ▪️

Whatever you're up to this weekend, may you be as entertained as these swans and fish!

▫️ the underneath ▫️

I know "Activity Report" sounds as dry as it gets, but once you realise that it's a record of people in Japan, today (in this attention-starved age!), reading Finnegans Wake for real, I'd argue it's a lot more exciting than the dictionary meaning of those two words. finneganswake.net/activity-rep...

The Doireann Ní Ghríofa event this evening at the @ilfdublin.bsky.social was genuinely inspiring. And props to the person who asked the camping car question!

I'm really glad that the winners past and present of the Dublin Literary Award are paid handsomely. We need more of this kind of praise. At the end of the day, writers and translators need to eat.

I'm just generally amazed at how many words Joyce managed to use. Most of them only once, but there're a lot of them!

💥 another burnt bin 💥 [as some of you know I have found very many over the years but I would love to see this one come up in the final act in a theatre]

Translation is typically not considered “academic” or “artistic” to merit consideration for research and arts funding, while the fact that we are a voluntary organisation making our work freely available to the public excludes us from grants given to traditional publishers.

We depend on private individuals and organisations to ensure that we can annotate, translate and make available all chapters of Finnegans Wake to the Japanese readership free of charge. Please consider supporting our work by joining our Friends programme. finneganswake.net/friends/en/

Finnegans Wake is not on the list, but that's not because it's not worthy of the top 100; it's because nobody on the panel has read it. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

The Calbee potato crisps' package redesign story making it across the Pacific and all the way to the Late Show is impressive.

Volta Theatre Company’s critically-acclaimed Counterparts & A Little Cloud has been expanded to include adaptations of three stories from Joyce’s debut work — “Two Gallants,” “A Little Cloud,” and “Counterparts” — at The Smock Alley Theatre on 15-20 June at 8pm.

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Rei Miyasaka's English subtitles for the anime series Sekkō Boys are really really good.

先週、ダブリンのジェイムズ・ジョイス・センターで行われた講演イベントの様子です。 『フィネガンズ・ウェイク』新訳プロジェクトのねらいや特徴、全体の翻訳方針や個々の訳語の解説を英語で行いました。

💨 ~~~ wild winds ~~~ wild water ~~~ 💨 [on a small stone outside my home]

5月5日にジェイムズ・ジョイス・センターにて『フィネガンズ・ウェイク』拙訳の方法を詳しく紹介する講演イベントを開催しました。 在アイルランド日本国大使館から宮川大使と小野崎専門調査員のご臨席を賜り、ブダペストとタリンからご来訪の文学博物館関係者の方々も交え、活き活きとした国際文学交流の夕べになりました。 ご参加くださったみなさまに心から感謝申し上げます。 www.ie.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_ja/11_0...

drawn to the mountains [walking through walls]

I'm thinking of moving into a two-tiered service model for translation. Tier 2 (affordable option): MTPE focussed on basic semantic correctness. Tier 1 (standard pricing): human translation of the whole text from the ground up with comprehensive care around style, accuracy and nuance.

This was a fantastic talk. I like the concept of "AI as normal technology" and found it helpful to look at reliability and other benchmarks rather than panic over a narrow set of measurable capabilities. Most of these lessons apply to translation and interpreting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcvI...

フィネガンズ・クイズ』東京Live版のアーカイブ視聴は今月の5日までとなっております。6日以降はお求めいただけませんのでご注意ください。 bbarchive260204a.peatix.com

at first glance a broken shed door … then it suddenly appeared more like the start of a new movie

There are still tickets available for next Tuesday's talk with @kenjihayakawa.com about his ongoing translation of Finnegans Wake into Japanese. Doors open at 6pm. The event is free but booking is essential. We hope to see you then! www.eventbrite.ie/e/translatin...

Just dawned on me now that this will be the day after the publication date of the Wake itself.

dream horse

When Burrus and Caseous entered the chat, we started sharing our own butter and cheese stories. They were full of adventure, love and chthonic horror. The drinks to wash down these tales happened to be tea, pet-nat, barolo and gazpacho. Oh, fermentation with a thousand faces! Art by Linda Lotiel

No prior knowledge of Japanese or Finnegans Wake is required for this event (i.e. it will all be in English), so if you are interested in either (or both) then we encourage you to book a ticket! @jamesjoycecentre.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/translatin...

▫️ boat yard dreams ▫️

Microcosmic landscape in 12th century wall @maryfrancesness.bsky.social

walk through the underworld

Hi all, my contract at LMU ends this month and I don't have any options lined up. I know that many of us are in the same situation, but if you hear of any opportunities or projects you think I might be suited to (doesn't have to be in academia) please send me a message or comment below. Thanks!

The famous advertisement in the Dublin Journal from the organisers asked 'Ladies not to come with Hoops' and 'The Gentlemen .. to come without their swords' as they were expecting such big numbers!

In S2E10 of the anime Frieren, there's a shot of a cliff which looks exactly like the Cliffs of Moher. Funnily enough, this shot is not in the original manga, so it must be an addition by the anime team, possibly a nod and tribute to the west of Ireland (though the actual elevation is 155m, not 3K).

A few of the many beautiful Kay Nielsen illustrations for East of the Sun and West of the Moon (1914), a book of Norwegian fairytales. See more illustrations, and read the stories, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/e...

April’s ways

I'd be eternally grateful if you could help us spread the word about our newly launched "Friends" programme. Ours is the first time a high-quality Japanese translation of the Wake is made publicly available for free. Even though we have no public funding, we'd like to continue our work.

Honoured and excited to be presenting at the James Joyce Centre next month about this topic. All heartily welcome! www.eventbrite.ie/e/translatin...

We are delighted to share our very first Activity Report from Japan's Finnegans Web. In a nutshell, we're promoting Finnegans Wake in Japan. As a small new org with no public funding, we've done quite a lot in just nine months, if I may say so myself! finneganswake.net/activity-rep...

Bonus Ep. 39 - Henry V (1944) We round out our series on Shakespeare adaptations with a discussion of Laurence Olivier's take on Henry V. We will now never speak of Shakespeare again. Watch a preview on YouTube or watch the full video at patreon.com/barnaclecast

I saw a lone walker recently, very small, at the edge of a desert

... hidden worlds ... [heavy bags put outside gates and doors during the fierce rain are now drying out .. and creating their own art]