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From: Craig Heath <craig@sco.COM>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 95 22:14:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Gaffa
To: love-hounds@uunet.UU.NET
Jon Drukman surfaces to write:
> Craig Heath makes the fatal error of mentioning my name... Didn't
> anyone tell you that to say a demon's name is to summon it?
Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?
- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 1, Act III, Scene 1.
(This message is a feeble excuse to make one more point when I've already
said I'd shut up about it:-)
Does it not strike anyone else that it's significant that "Gaffa" is
capitalised in the lyrics? I can see two possible reasons for this:
1) (The prosaic explanation) Kate has heard people talking about gaffer
tape, and thought it was a brand name.
2) (My preferred theory) It's deliberately capitalised and misspelt
to make it resemble a place name, and thereby add another level of
meaning.
- Craig @ SCO near London.