The Wall

In this election year, we forget how prevalent a phrase or word can be. It keeps appearing in print or has attribution to public people. Most people recognize the great wall of China. An athlete continues until he hits the wall. Pink Floyd produced “The Wall” album.

Pink Floyd could never have anticipated how its 1979 album could be in the news. Two high profile names have referred to a wall. Each of them, Donald Trump and Pope Benedict, has referred to a wall in February this year.

Donald spoke of a wall to keep out illegal aliens from moving north into the USA. Pope Benedict recently criticized the statement about the wall on a southern border of the US as ‘unChristian’.

So here we are. A guy with a name that--in a card game--supersedes a previous play. He talks about a wall.

Then a Pope, whose name means ‘well said’  [bene dict] says that the a wall is unChristian.

The Vatican, the Pope’s hometown, is within the city of Rome.The Wall that surrounds it is about 39 feet.

The names and their associations mean nothing. You have to consider the more than the words that come from the mouths of the speaker.