Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!mit-eddie!ut-emx.UUCP!slh@ut-emx.UUCP From: slh@ut-emx.UUCP (Susan L. Cecelia Harwood) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: The Man with the Child in His Eyes (was Re: Om mani padme hum) Message-ID: <24943@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 23 Feb 90 02:47:40 GMT References: <9002220344.AA15110@GAFFA.MIT.EDU> Sender: daemon@eddie.mit.edu (Mr Background) Reply-To: emx.utexas.edu!emx!slh@cs.utexas.edu (Susan L. Cecelia Harwood) Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 22 Approved: nessus@eddie.mit.edu In article <9002220344.AA15110@GAFFA.MIT.EDU> Doug Alan writes: >Why would anyone think that "The Man With the Child in his Eyes" is >about masturbation? Kate once said it's about how women look for >their fathers in their lovers. Oh, wow! That's really cool! So, I wonder if it's the man with the child in his eyes, as in a child-like man, or the man with the child in his eyes, like the child being the daughter. Hmmm. This song is dear to me because the first verse perfectly describes the first love of my life, while the second verse does the same for my second love. Heavy sigh... >|>oug -- --------Susan L. Cecelia Harwood----------------------------------------------- The whims that we are weeping for our parents would be beaten for. --Kate Bush -----------(slh@emx.UUCP)------------------The University of Texas @Austin-----