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Re: Gaffa, again

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