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Re: Can anyone define "Gaffa"

From: magritte@eden.rutgers.edu (John Carey)
Date: 24 Feb 1995 22:51:09 -0500
Subject: Re: Can anyone define "Gaffa"
To: rec-music-gaffa@rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: Rutgers University
References: <199502232352.AA042863527@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>

>   The song also features some Catholic imagery (big C, most of her songs 
>are fairly little c "catholic"), Purgatory ("...I cought a glimpse of a
>God, all shining and bright...")

Also some images from the Gospel:  "there's a plank in me eye with a camel
that's trying to get through it".  It's not as rich in catholic or biblical
allusions as "Why Should I Love You?" though.  BTW, anybody know what the
"This Chapter Six" reference at the beginning of that song refers to?

There's more interesting religious imagery in "Lily", but I doubt the 
pope would approve, as she appears to be casting a spell.