Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (09/20/89)
Really-From: Julian.West@mac.dartmouth.edu Thanks for the lyrics, Graham. I don't think them "wierd" at all. The word "seedcake" is definitely a reference to _Ulysses_ by James Joyce. Lazy scoffers who want to check this out fast should turn to the last line of the book and compare it to Kate's lyric "mmmmm yes, I said oooh yes not yet." The clearest description of the seedcake episode is in the "Sirens" chapter (#11) "he said I was the flower of the mountain yes" might be from the same episode. Is this song about Molly Bloom's desire to be "slippin out of the page"? These are not the first Joycean references in Kate's work. Julian
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (09/21/89)
Really-From: bloch%mandrill@ucsd.edu (Steve Bloch) Julian.West@mac.dartmouth.edu writes: > The word "seedcake" is definitely a >reference to _Ulysses_ by James Joyce. >... >These are not the first Joycean references >in Kate's work. And, of course, there are 17 characters in "The_Sensual_World", the same as the number of chapters in _Finnegan's_Wake_. fnord "Writers are a funny breed / I should know" -- Jane Siberry bloch%cs@ucsd.edu