The beginning of Chapter 1 of Humboldt, or the Power of Positive Thinking

Humboldt, or the Power of Positive Thinking (Chapter 1)

A quick, humorous description of what you need to know before you start reading Ulysses, followed by my favorite passage.

Scott Navicky reads his favorite passage from Ulysses

A continuation of the first chapter of Humboldt, or the Power of Positive Thinking.

Humboldt, or the Power of Positive Thinking (Chapter 1, part 2)

After explaining what initially motivated him to read Voltaire, making a Voltron joke, and speaking French (badly), Scott Navicky reads his favorite passage from Candide.

Scott Navicky reads his favorite passage from Candide

An example of how the annotated edition of Humboldt: Or, The Power of Positive Thinking works, focusing on Fergus' creative misreading of Irish history. (And a killer Wayne Barnes joke!)

Humboldt: The Annotated Edition

An example of how art (and drunken leprechauns) features within Humboldt: Or, The Power of Positive Thinking.

Haunted by photography and fueled by failure, Carlos Spencer-Bayard is an insomniac anythingarian boozehound, who is known to his friends and family simply as “Ghost.” A keen observer of the strangemotion of his own mind, he spends his days engrossed in the daily demands of parenting (i.e. liontaming), but at night, when the noose of nightmadness tightens and the turtle of thought is flipped onto its back, he wrestles with Imagereality. Understanding Imagereality is no easy task, as images are everywhere; and wherever images go, imagetheory must follow. Thus an imagethinker is a scholar of the cultural kitchen sink: nothing is verboten. Shakespeare’s Sonnets and potential self-slaughter, Gnostic intoxication, Gérard Depardieu’s inexplicable sex appeal, Talkreality (also known as Squawkreality), drag queens, author photos, absinthe, and endlessnessnessness: everything is permissible under Imagereality’s spectacular perspectival sun.