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Re: Mothers

From: chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams)
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 93 21:45 CST
Subject: Re: Mothers
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Tamara asks:
>I have this theory that "Mother Stands for Comfort" is Kate's response to
>the Mother song on Pink Floyd's The Wall.  Any ideas about this?  Am I
>just suffering from a bad case of post-structurally induced
>intertextualitis?  Or perhaps pre-oedipal flashbacks? 

   No, it's not *too* off the wall. 

   During one depressed period of her life, Kate questioned if she
should bother recording any new music, as "The Wall" had, in her words,
"..said it all."


   Lucky for us she changed her mind.


                             Chris Williams of
                               Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago
                                 chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu