A Flea In Her Ear?

[Robb McCaffree <nsrjm@mednet.ucla.edu>]

Vampyre wrote:
> 
> 
> Babooshka has always been one of my favorite Kate songs...I even managed to
> have it be the first song played during intermission while our stage group
> was performing Guy de Maupassant's "A Flea in Her Ear"....
> 
> vampyre@tarheel.net


Wow...is it possible Kate was inspired by "A Flea In Her Ear?" 
for Babooshka? We know that she's taken inspiration from movies 
before, so why not a play?

It all fits -- from the "pseudonym to fool him" and the "scented 
letters" to "arranging a place to go."

My favorite line in the play comes when Mme Chandebise, who 
wants to see if her husband "will fall for her incognito" rents 
a seedy hotel room to catch him:


Mme Chandebise: Oh, we won't be needing the bed.

Hotel clerk: Pervert.


Excuse my paraphrasing (and spelling),

Robb