Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!dont-send-mail-to-path-lines From: rjc@cstr.ed.ac.UK (Richard Caley) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: get out of my house Message-ID: Date: 3 Apr 91 07:07:53 GMT References: <9104011521.aa18846@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> Sender: Love-Hounds-request@ims.alaska.edu Organization: Centre for Speech Technology Research Lines: 29 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu In article <9104011521.aa18846@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>, jon drukman (jd) writes: jd> Someone said that the lines "this house is full of my mess" etc didn't jd> make sense in this context. Well, if you take the house of the song jd> to metaphorically represent the heroine's body, it will make a lot jd> more sense. Nope, no connection there for me. jd> And anyway, how do you make sense of "My home, my joy/ ***I'M*** barred jd> and bolted" otherwise? Metaphorically. jd> Besides, "this house is as old as I am, this house knows all I have jd> done..." What does this suggest if the house isn't equivalent jd> (metaphorically) to the heroine? They just happened to build the house jd> on the same day she was born? Woman =/= body. Agree with you about playing it loud thoug. In fact, given that only the cleaners are in at this time and they already think I am round the twist... -- rjc@cstr.ed.ac.uk Letting the weirdness in.