From: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org (angry-psychos-digest) To: angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Subject: angry-psychos-digest V10 #71 Reply-To: angry-psychos@smoe.org Sender: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "angry-psychos-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. angry-psychos-digest Sunday, June 26 2005 Volume 10 : Number 071 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Poe-related discussion question ["Brian Edwards" Subject: RE: Poe-related discussion question I always interpreted it the 2nd way (sexually). Interesting alternate view. I agree she's one of the best lyricists too. - -B. >From: "Jim Hutchins" >To: angry-psychos@smoe.org >Subject: Poe-related discussion question >Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:27:55 -0500 (CDT) > > >I've been meaning to ask this question for a while. > >I'm really into lyrics. (Must be the former English major thing.) > >In Poe's "Wild", she says, > >"Tell me what you've come for >Moving like a hunter through my back door >Leaving the perfume of all you adore >To die nameless on my floor >Yeah, well, we both know that you don't play fair >I bet you really think that you get me there." > >I can think of two readings of that last line. Either > >1) He thinks he is able to score points off her in a fight >2) He thinks he is sexually satifying her, but he's not > >Which reading do you prefer? Me, I think Poe is so gifted that she means >to leave it ambiguous so that either #1 OR #2 is equally correct. > >Isn't it interesting that the three best singer/songwriters of our >generation, in my opinion (Anne Previn, Bonnie Hayes, Poe) are not >necessarily the "most popular" or commercially successful? And all three >are female? It's one of those things that make you go "hmmmm". > >-- >Jim Hutchins >agile1@netdoor.com ------------------------------ End of angry-psychos-digest V10 #71 ***********************************