Re: Gaffa, again

[jessica@athos.rutgers.edu (jessica)]

[damn news poster!!!!! sorry for the unusual quoting --jess]

gb10@gte.COM (Gregory Bossert) writes:

)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 --

Not me! I hadn't a clue that it was gaffer's tape/duct tape she was
tlaking about - but the image I had always gotten in my mind was one
of a big sticky spider-web-like thing..

                                jessica
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