The_Sensual_World

[Julian.West@mac.dartmouth.edu]

 Thanks for the lyrics, Graham.  I don't think them "wierd" at all.

  The word "seedcake" is definitely a 
reference to _Ulysses_ by James Joyce.
Lazy scoffers who want to check this out
fast should turn to the last line of the book
and compare it to Kate's lyric
"mmmmm yes, I said oooh yes not yet."

The clearest description of the seedcake
episode is in the "Sirens" chapter (#11)

"he said I was the flower of the mountain yes"
might be from the same episode.

Is this song about Molly Bloom's desire to be
"slippin out of the page"?

These are not the first Joycean references
in Kate's work.

Julian