Donna Lewis

[Kent Finley <bhr4@hg.uleth.ca>]

>p.s.  The artist was Donna Lewis, I have no idea what the song title was and 
>today is really the celebration of my birth.  

Well, Happy Birthday!  I heard on some countdown program that Donna Lewis
includes Kate Bush as one of her musical influences, as well as Elton John, and
I forget who else.  Catchy little tune if it's the one I'm thinking of (Always
Forever?  gee, what KB album title does that sound like?)

Fishing for support of Alan Carter's (?) idea that gaffa is Arabic for
something like disbelief, is anyone familiar with the Quran in Arabic?  The
reason I ask is that I've been told that the poetic quality of the surahs or
verses is quite intricate and lilting, and includes complex rhyming schemes.  
This seems true as well in 'Suspended in Gaffa' and I wondered if the form of
the song, independent of its meaning, has parallels in the Quranic tradition or
other (Sufi?) poetry.

Peace,

Kent