bierkergaard

"I can't understand some of my critics, like Pound or Miss Weaver, for instance. They say it's obscure. They compare it, of course, with Ulysses. But the action of Ulysses was chiefly during the daytime, and the action of my new work takes place chiefly at night. It's natural things should not be so clear at night, isn't it now?" James Joyce in reference to the reactions of literay luminaries to his book "Finnegan's Wake." I had a dream two nights ago that I was approaching a building, and a bar--but a stately one at that--named Finnegan's Wake. Apparently, in actuality, there is bar called Finnegan's Wake in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and I may have been there before. Who knows. If someone had given me a quiz yesterday morning asking my to identify what "Finnegan's Wake" was I would have said a reference from dream from that night, not a real book nor real bar. There is also a such named bar in NYC. In my dream

  James 4:14   Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.    I find this picture fascinating because it shows two faces Janus-like of America. Obama, a person of color, Liberal, a believer in the efficacy of government is meeting human need. Romney, white, corporate, and proponent of business. Smiling, all happy. But, there is a less than happy side to their visions of the world.    Both men are religious. Obama's social gospel is a tired replaying on the evils of structures and institutions. Romney's do-goodism in the Mormon church realm seems divorced from Bain Capitals strategy of busting companies into bankruptcy regardless of the human consequences to enhance the bottom line of Bain and its clients. Both belief sets mutate biblical teachings.    On the upside, there are admirable qualities that both men have. They work hard, are intelligent, loyal husbands,