"G arrives . . ."

["Karen L. Newcombe" <kln@crl.com>]

It may be of interest to look at the context of the song and the mention 
of Gurdjieff in "Them Heavy People" on the same album before we jump on the 
menstrual bandwagon.

Gurdjieff was known for his studies of "Strange Phenomenon" and his 
rather extensive coterie of students all refer to him as "G" in their 
numerous books, letters and memoirs of their studies with him.

Kate is making a coded reference to Gurdjieff, not to having her period.  
The whole stanza is about premonitions.  Her brief mention of "the 
punctual blues" does not make the whole song about menstruation any more 
than a brief mention of swallows makes "Night of the Swallows" about birds.

Do I sound like I'm on the rag here?

Karen  kln@crl.com