Finneran's Wake
Finneran’s Wake – where the ART OF CONVERSATION lives.
Here, no topic is untouchable, no idea inadmissible, and no one too heretical to be heard.
As the great French essayist Montaigne once said, “To my taste, the most fruitful and natural exercise of our minds is CONVERSATION. I find the practice of it the most delightful activity in our lives”.
It certainly is the most delightful activity in my life. I want it to be so in yours as well.
To that end, I humbly welcome you to my channel.
Here, we'll exercise our minds together. Here, we'll practice this delightful activity as friends. We'll engage, now and forever, in the art--the highest and most human art--of conversation!
With affection,
Daniel
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 107
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Song Of The Open Road by Walt Whitman | A Reading
“Henceforth I ask not good-fortune—I myself am good-fortune. Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms. Strong and con…
00:43:31 |
Mon 28 Jun 2021
Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev | A Reading
“A nihilist—that’s from the Latin "nihil", nothing, so far as I can judge. Therefore, the word denotes a man who doesn’t recognize anything?” Sadly, it does. The word’s etymology, should you be so fe…
00:46:02 |
Mon 21 Jun 2021
Metamorphoses by Ovid | A Reading
“To the music of his strings he sang, and all the bloodless spirits wept to hear; and Tantalus forgot the fleeing water, Ixion’s wheel was tranced; Sisyphus sat rapt upon his stone and the Furies’ ch…
01:20:49 |
Mon 14 Jun 2021
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann | A Reading
“The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes, time is a puzzling thing, there is something about it tha…
00:51:35 |
Mon 07 Jun 2021
The Prelude by William Wordsworth | A Reading
“The earth is all before me: with a heart joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about, and should the guide I choose be nothing better than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way”. Let us mo…
01:04:41 |
Sun 30 May 2021
On The Art Of Conversation by Michel De Montaigne | A Reading
“To my taste, the most fruitful and most natural exercise of our minds is conversation. I find the practice of it the most delightful activity in our lives. In their academies, the Athenians, and eve…
01:03:06 |
Sun 23 May 2021
The History Of Rasselas, Prince Of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson | A Reading
‘The Europeans,’ answered Imlac, ‘are less unhappy than we, but they are not happy. Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed’. Alas, is this not the d…
01:07:53 |
Sun 09 May 2021
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