Dreaming+In+America


 * “Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream. We can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.” Ursula K.LeGuin **

 //"The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out his his brain while the clock ticked on the washstand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor."-F.Scott Fitzgerald//



"They {Americans} strain their faculties to the utmost to achieve paltry results, and this cannot fail speedily to limit their discernment and to circumscribe their powers. They might be much poorer and still be greater."-Alexis deTocqueville

media type="file" key="2-10 A Well Respected Man.m4a" A Well Respected Man: The Kinks I know the Kinks are British, but the character that Ray Davies is describing pretty much fits the profile of the middle-class American dreamer.

Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
-Walt Whitman, "I Hear America Singing" American Dreaming Reflection Next Room: The Isolated States of America