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From: cjr@cs.bham.ac.uk (Chris Ridd)
Subject: Re: ALBUM NEWSFLASH!
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1993 14:40:05 GMT
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In article <C8nx0p.73v@chinet.chinet.com> jorn@chinet.chinet.com (Jorn Barger) writes:
>Chris writes:
>>   Kate's really not a great reader. Her knowledge of the story is
>>probably based on a specific movie. Most of her fiction-based songs
>>are based on films she has seen, rather than the books. [...]
>>The Sensual World was based on a reading of Molly's speech by Siobhan 
>>MacKenna
>
>But Kate *does* claim to have read Ulysses, no small challenge, given its
>notorious difficulty.
>

But has she read Finnegan's Wake? Maybe that explains the lengthy
gestation period for her albums... :-)

O'course, HoL (the song) was influenced by the film 'Night of the
Demon', starring the late Dana Andrews (spelling?)