Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (04/01/87)
Really-From: drukman%UMASS.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu
(Jonathan S. Drukman)
> Aren't you people anxious to get back to the old nasty war of
> insults with IED?
Not really. There's a lot more interesting material emerging from this
discussion. Imagine: people debating things Kate-like in an intellectual
fashion! Valid arguments, carefully constructed and imaginatively rebutted.
Ah, a debater's dream...
> Your idea that it may have been a trysting place as well is by no means
> invalid [...] Except that the romantic experiences themselves seem to be
> imaginary, fictional.
Well, why shouldn't they be? Kate has written constantly about experiences
that she hasn't had personally! I'm sure she never robbed a bank ("There
Goes A Tenner") or shot the murderer of her groom ("The Wedding List").
I must admit, however, that I am quite unable to find anything in
"Suspended In Gaffa" that only fits in with my interpretation. I don't
expect anyone to embrace it unconditionally until I *do* find something
either. The quote you printed a while ago from an interview with
Kate was a good rebuttal, but I too found her vagueness about "the experience"
disconcerting, and I wholeheartedly agree that Kate is not one to avoid
talking about sex explicitly!
Onto the problem posed by psl@oliveb.UUCP concerning the hidden message
in Experiment IV... Well, I listened to the track repeatedly, and I'm still
at a loss. It sounds (to me) more like "I bet my mum's gonna give me a
little toy" than your interpretation. It's possible that my judgement
is clouded by my having listened to the track over and over again with
the previous interpretation running through my head. And, no, it isn't
recorded backwards as far as I can tell, it's just "choppy".
--Jon Drukman