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From: c Karma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> "Do your smiles covert complicity, debase as it admires?" -- what's that
> about? read Pat's post...
My problem with this is not the meaning but the grammar, it's like Jim
Morrison saying:
If they say I never loved you
You know they are a liar
It hits me as a mistake, it's a glaring stand out every time I hear it
which in the case of the Doors song happens to be more often than I'd like
to hear it.).
She also says in "Come In From the Cold", which BTW is a song that I love:
I feel your legs under the table
Leaning into mine
I feel renewed
I feel disabled
By these bonfires in my spine
I don't know who the arsonist was
Which incendiary soul
But all I ever wanted...
I used to try to make this conform to some idea of sexual awakening, but the
problem was, wouldn't she know who the "arsonist" was if that was the
meaning? So I think that she means bon-fires as back-pain, post-polio
syndrome, the arsonist being the "incendiary soul" from whom she contracted
polio. I t makes sense to me, but ...what is it doing in this song, in this
verse?
Patricia O'Connor
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private to CJ: NP Slip Sliding in my head
