“Like Ulysses, the ground zero here (FW) is the utterly mundane. Middle class, tormented, Irish people embedded in the detritus of the 20th Century. But there’s an effort here to never lose the cosmic perspective, to never lose the sense that we are not individuals lost in time, we are the front ends of gene streams that reach back to Africa. That somehow we have all these ancestors and conflicts swarming and storming within us.
It’s a glorious, psychedelic, heartful, Irish view of what it means to be embedded in the mystery of existence.”
Terence McKenna, 1995