It was the night that the power went out in Berkeley that he'd finished Joyce's Finnegan's Wake by the light of a candle. Sometimes you need to be forced to study what's right in front of you.

“I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot…”

“What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it …”

“From my stone pillow I have dreamed dreams of the mortal world above. I have he…”

“As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understa…”