From: owner-alloy-digest To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V1 #49 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Saturday, 31 August 1996 Volume 01 : Number 049 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Look at it this way... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Baily Date: Fri, 30 Aug 96 21:23:24 +1000 Subject: Alloy: Look at it this way... Hi, As you'd know, you can gain a profoundly new appreciation of something simply by looking at it in a different light or through someone else's eyes. Brian's offering of the excellent insight into the possible story behind Cloudburst at Shingle Street inspired me to send this. If you've got similar theories about TMDR's works, please speak up! I, for one, would love to read them. A while back, Mary Brown was kind enough to tell me her personal theory of what Airwaves means. It stunned me when I read it because I could imagine it fitting so well. After pestering her to let me forward it, Mary has (shyly!) agreed to let me share it with you. I'd suggest after reading this, you load up your CD/tape/LP of The Golden Age of Wireless, or for those lucky enough to own it, Live Wireless, then cue Airwaves and, in the words of our intrepid hero: "Look at it this way"... - ---cut here--- Now where was I...oh, I was gonna tell you about my own interpretation of Airwaves although I know what TMDR was trying to get across. I imagined it to be the story of a determined scientist trying to change matter into energy and back again, using himself as the test vehicle. I imagined him alone one night, knee deep in water, feeling his heartbeat slow as his molecules changed and he no longer needed to breathe. Then nothing. Some car backfiring was really his re-entry into the tangible world again and of course he would suffer some physical consequences-itching all over and exhaustion. - ---end cut--- Oh, one more thing before I crawl back under my rock, Mary is finishing up at Vanderbilt Uni today and moving state to greener pastures. As a result I believe she'll be off the air emailwise for about a month. Europa, my friend, I'll miss you, and I'm sure I'm not the only one on this list who will. Call me huh? stay well, Paul. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V1 #49 **************************