Re: Kate Books

[James Smith <munnari!cc.nu.oz.au!CCJS@uunet.UU.NET>]

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Subject: Re: Kate Books
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Date: 19 Feb 90 10:13:45 +1000
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Jorn Barger writes:

> are we agreed that 
> "G" arrives refers to Gurdjieff as Ouspensky spoke of him in the book "In
> Search of the Miraculous"?

G refers to Dave Gilmour.  cf album cover.

> I think om mani padme hum is something like "hail the jewel in the lotus"?

This is probably one of the best known eastern (Zen?) chants.  What it
translates as I don't know, but it is usually used to concentrate the
mind and achieve inner peace or some such.

> "Beelzebub" is a name for the devil, also the hero of Gurjieff's hardest book.
> but why is he aching in her belly?

I think she just means she has butterflies.

> how unambiguously does this seem a song about masturbation?

Huh?

> anyone current enough on bronte to give a tight plot synopsis of w.h.?

Read the book.  It's worth it.  But the song refers to about 15 (?)
minutes at the end of the film, and so doesn't really gel with the
novel.

Jim

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