Re: .NET Magazine

[nessus@mit.edu (Douglas Alan)]

>   To change the subject completely I've been listening to The
>   Dreaming a lot and I was wondering if there was any significance
>   to the mule/donkey noises in Get Out Of My House? I heard from
>   someone or from somewhere that the song is about someone suffering
>   a psychic attack, so do the mule noises have anything to do with
>   that? Or am I taliking complete bollocks, probably.

The song is about someone who is trying to hide herself away
emotionally from a suitor, presumably because she has been hurt in the
past and is afraid of being hurt again.  The second part of the song
is a play on the traditional folk song "The Two Magicians".  There
have been a number of different theories over the years about the
sybolism of the mules.  When I asked Kate about the mules, she said
that the mules were meant to represent the stupidity of trying to hide
from your problems, rather than facing them.  Whether or not Kate's
theory is the correct one is probably best left to the individual
listener.

|>oug
<nessus@mit.edu>

"I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in
 my brain, because later you might think you're having a good idea but
 it's just eggs hatching."