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 To: Love-Hounds
 From: Andrew Marvick (IED)
 Subject: Mailbag

     Jorn Barger's observations about _The_Wicker_Man_ are much
appreciated by IED. It does sound like a likely source for
the subject matter of Kate's song _Wow_. IED recalls how years
went by before someone asked Kate whether the line "Put out the
light/Then put out the light" in _Blow_Away_ wasn't a reference to
_Othello_, whereupon she admitted happily that, sure enough, it was.
How many such "hidden" subjects, highly specific but never
volunteered by Kate, still wait to be unearthed by fans?
     Speaking of which, IED now agrees with whoever it was who
suggested that Kate's song with the lines "Surrender into the roses/
Go back home under the posies" was properly entitled not _Camilla_ but
_Carmilla_, in reference to Sheridan LeFanu's vampire novella. The lyrics
strongly suggest imagery from the book.
     As for :>oug's allusion to a "rumor" that Kate "had a crush" on
Lindsay Kemp, IED wonders where our Pseudo-Moderator comes up with this
kind of irrelevant and frivolous crap? It's the first IED has ever heard
of such a "rumor", and he hopes the last, barring the presentation of any
actual evidence.

-- Andrew