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From: lionhart@netlink.cts.com (Jackie Zucconi)
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1992 16:34:36 -0800
Subject: Something Kate related, anyone interested?
To: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA
I've always noticed that in Kate's song "Cloudbusting" she opens with the line "I still dream of Organon and wake up crying." Now for sometime I thought perhaps this is just a "spelling" mistake of some sort. Being a Medievalist I've come across an interesting fact. Medieval universities often gave a type of primer for logic and philosophy to their students, this primer was actually a collection of treatises by Aristotle which the Medieval scholars collected together and titled "Organon." Now I wonder does Kate perhaps mean some sort of reference to this "Organon" when she technically shouuld be saying "Orgonon?" If she is aware of the Medieval primer then I suggest a theory: She is maybe giving a little dig at those respected scientists that criticised Wm. Reich by mentioning a "basic text" for logic and philosophy? Ron Hill was gracious enough to Email me a discussion of Reich from the archives which helped me to formulate my theory. Does anyone else have a theory about Kate's "spelling mistake?" I was told someone actually wrote a letter to Kate about it and recieved a reply but I don't think her answer was made public. Ball is your court now people.... --- Lionheart -- INTERNET: lionhart@netlink.cts.com (Jackie Zucconi) UUCP: ...!nosc!ryptyde!netlink!lionhart NetLink Online Communications * Public Access in San Diego, CA (619) 435-6181