--- Bruce Kimerer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Or, also in O&M: "The golden dive, the fatted > flake". Now, I have no idea > what 'fatted flake' really means.
I think of it as skin flaking, after a sunburn. It seems to me the more fat you have, the more likely you are to sunburn instead of tan (of course, being really white also contributes). The golden (ones) are in good shape - they're tanned and they're at the pool diving in and carrying on; the fatted (the fat ones) are just lying in the lounge chairs getting sunburned and flaking. I also think of the "golden" as being the young and beautiful ones (with or without the aid of cosmetic surgery) whereas the "fatted" are the older ones, past their prime, just lying around to catch some rays (instead of being up here in the frozen friggin' north, where they're threatening us with "heavy snowfall" today and tomorrow, and wondering whether taking the subway might not be a better idea than driving the car. I hate winter!) > > And she is not at all a show-off with her language. > I love the opening to > Paprika Plains for its plain speaking so artfully > put together that you can > see, hear and smell the scene: > > "It fell from midnight skies > It drummed on the galvanized > In the washroom women tracked the rain > Up to the makeup mirror > Liquid soap and grass > And Jungle Gardenia crash > On Pine-Sol and beer" This is probably one of my favourite Joni verses - just love the way that sounds. ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
