Hi Eric,
Oh Gawd, thank you Eric. I see what you mean about a live snake. Then the
snake is danger en route. Death available for delivery to your enemy's
door. If the snake is not evil and death, I guess we agree that the snake
is danger or sin, then? Interesting..... <long pause away from the
keyboard.>
I like your interpretation now that I've been exposed to it. To my old
thinking, the snake was evil-conquered and converted into something useful-
meat. He is danger in the past tense. In your scenario, the snake is
dangerous right NOW; the snake is so dangerous that it takes a village to
subdue it. It's not been conquered at all. Its just being confronted at
great effort and risk. Joni is portraying the _struggle_ with the snake.
That fits in much better with the persistent danger theme elsewhere whereas
my conquered-danger is just kind of.... lifeless. (Pun intended)
This is **EXACTLY** the kind of Lit class interaction that I longed for
before I was on JMDL. Thank you.
Lama
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Wilcox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> GREAT post, Jim. I love it when JMDLers are able to explore how tracks
> interact together on albums....
>
> However.... one thing bothered me. How do we know that the snake on the
> front cover is dead? Perhaps it is very much alive-- and the
> primitives on
> the cover are tansporting it out of the city into the suburbs? or out of
> the jungle-- into the city. If we see the snake as a symbol of
> sin--- then
> the idea of re-introducing sin into what is seen as a perfect area-- the
> suburbs-- could factor in, couldn't it? If the snake is dead--
> then sin is
> dead, too, and I don't see that as possible on this album.
>
> eric
