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From: gb10@gte.com (Gregory Bossert)
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1991 19:09:15 -0700
Subject: Re: Gaffa, again
To: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu
Craig recounts: > When I first saw the song title "Suspended in Gaffa", my immediate > association was with a reference to a place. I have since tried to > figure out why, and all I can suggest is a similarity to the title of > the novel "Eyeless in Gaza" by Aldous Huxley, which I recall being in > the school library in my early 'teens. I'm not sure if that is the > reason, but it is my hypothesis that Kate would have a similar > association, given our similar backgrounds. heh, funny that. i had *exactly* the same association for years -- until i started reading .gaffa, in fact. the gaffa/gaza connection is probably a little vague (IMHO) as a serious analysis, but it's interesting that someone else made that connection... footah! -greg -- gb10@gte.com -- "a woman drew her long black hair out tight and fiddled whisper music on those strings and bats with baby faces in the violet light whistled, and beat their wings" -- T.S. Eliot