Re: What is "The Ninth Wave"?

[jb593@bard.edu (Jamie Blackman)]

fujita (cat04599@catline.or.jp) wrote:
: Hello. This is the first time that I post my mail here.
: I would like to ask you one thing.
: Side Two of "The Hounds of Love" is named "The Ninth Wave".
: But what is "The Ninth Wave"? Does anybody know?
: I know this Side is about a drowning woman in the sea,
: but why "The NINTH Wave"? Is there any special meaning?

It comes from Celtic Mythology, and was used in the Tennyson poem "The 
Coming of Arthur," which, if I recall from my literature classes, is from 
_The Idylls of the King_. If you have a CD copy of the album, it should 
have the quote on it. And if you have a dub, shame on you.

-JB