134 – Greetings from Bruceville strange maps
James Joyce once boasted that, should Dublin ever disappear off the face of the earth, the city could be reconstructed from the references to it in Ulysses. The maker of this map did something similar: Bruceville is New Jersey, as it can be reconstructed out of Bruce Springsteens lyrics.
Although one of his most famous albums was called Nebraska (and one of his best-stelling singles was Streets of Philadelphia), Springsteen cant hide the fact that hes a real Jersey boy. The lyrics to his songs are peppered with references to the landscape of the Garden State. The Bosss New Jersey is populated by ominous darknesses, glittering fairgrounds, empty parking lots, pining sweethearts, blinding ad signs ??” a landscape seen from that most essential machine for American living, the car.
