BOC: Imaginos

Andrew A. Apold mordru at FLITE.NET
Mon Sep 18 13:58:03 EDT 2000


At 08:42 AM 9/18/2000 -0700, Joseph Brooks wrote:
>>
>> > (1) "And when the sun proved false / as it always does /
>> some of them
>> > would
>> > be lost / and some would sail back home / it was no star /
>> but a magna
>> > of
>> > illusion"
>
>Hmm, I always thought it was, "It was no STORM, but a magna of illusion"
>hence some of the sailors being lost, the sun obscured.. Hmmm.. "the origin
>of storms"?

I always heard this as "star", which ties into Astronomy's "A star..." and
goes along with all the lovecraftian ties in other songs ("when the stars
are right...") etc.

"Left behind by the latest trends...
 eating fried chicken with his regicidal friends...
   - "Porcelain Monkey" by Warren Zevon
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Andrew Apold



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