Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/04/89)
Really-From: Michael Mendelson <mendel@cs.uiuc.edu> Richard writes: Re: Dan Efran's questions > Sorry if these have been answered already, but... > 4. Is Kate's Ninth Wave related to Sting's (Love is the) > Seventh Wave? If so, what's the reference to? > (I assume it's literary) As some people have already said, I don't think there is any relation. I have the impression that Sting's title is related to Henri CharriKre's _Papillon_, where the hero is rescued from Devil's Island by jumping into the seventh wave coming in from the ocean. Actually, I once heard that Sting's seventh wave was a surfing/Hawaii reference. Apparently, every seventh wave is particularly well-suited for surfing, so after catching a really big one, good surfers wait out the next six and hop on the seventh. Any latent surfers out there?