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Title: Dreamtime by John Moriarty ISBN: 1-901866-31-9 Publisher: Dufour Editions Pub. Date: December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A Multi-Facetious Spiritual Quest
Comment: If you seek purely conventional poetry like that of Marlowe, Eliot, or, perhaps, Raleigh, do not read this book. It is far removed from the sphere of convention, as we know it. This book -- while it holds elements of an intellectual odyssey -- grafts an emotional, spiritual quest from the accuracy of language to the internalization process of the reader. It is the story of one man, tormented by the demons of culture and society, declaring that it is only through our (paradoxical as it may seem) "spiritual rationalizations" of the world that we may come to exorcise it of its ambiguity and depravity. We may be able to assert elements of culture and religion with the certainty of our senses; however, we may not vindicate them to our souls - this is John Moriarty's belief. With one foot in the Kedron and the other upon ancient Ireland, John Moriarty seeks to define the (outside the beliefs of Greek philosophy) quintessential metaphysics of man.

Rating: 1
Summary: In which an intelligent man turns his brain off
Comment: John Moriarty, Irish philosopher and gardener, tries to restore a sense of Wonder and Mysticism by cobbling together a lot of scraps of world mythology and gasping at the resulting junkpile.

It's a sort of precis to his multi-volume work of unrivalled gibber, "Turtle Was Gone A Long Time". No, I don't think he means the turtle that the elephants that support Discworld are standing on.

This is the sort of thing that many Irish people think ought to be our contribution to the world. Sadly, I don't think that Moriarty is bring the Irish people back to natural religion, not when there are more immediate problems to deal with, such as major urban drug abuse and racism. This sort of spiritualistic burble is all very well-meaning, but it functions as a verbal fog in which the well-heeled can hide and reassure themselves that for all their investments they're cultured people really.

Bah. Humbug.