Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: I am Doug! (Long, detailed discussion on "The Dreaming") Message-ID: <1435@peora.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 13:07:08 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.1435 Posted: Mon Aug 5 13:07:08 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Aug-85 23:39:47 EDT References: <1365@peora.UUCP> <4781@mit-eddie.UUCP> <1412@peora.UUCP> <4847@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 47 Keywords: Probably of interest only to Kate Bush fans > Yes, it's very clear that in "Get Out of My House" she has somehow > become the house, or equates herself with the house, but what is the > biblical allusion involved? What does the Bible have to say about > houses being human bodies or vice versa? The Bible just describes the body as a "house" or "temple" on occasion. Incidentally, I guess you are aware that another song on that album (I think Suspended in Gaffa) also alludes to Biblical symbols. I don't have the lyrics here, but there is a line there that says something like There's a plank in me eye, And a camel trying to get through it. This is a reference to two separate New Testament passages. The first says something like "Remove first the log that is in your own eye, so that you may see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother's eye." This refers to working on your own problems before criticizing others (or something along those lines). (I think the King James Version says "beam" instead of "log"; I don't know if any version says "plank".) The second passage says "It is easier for a camel to go through an eye of a needle [some scholars read "the Eye of the Needle", the name of a narrow gateway in Jerusalem] than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven." These two passages are tied together, of course, by the word "eye" in her song. Their presence also makes me doubt somewhat whether she is really as atheistic as you suggest; although she has a strange ecumenical view of (atonement, enlightenment, salvation), she does seem to express a concern for attaining it in this song. > Why show your love for me now, when it's too late? I'm dying. > Why didn't you do it while I was still alive, > when it would have done some good? I guess that makes sense; i.e., "it" might mean "show your love for me." However, I would interpret it as meaning that she doesn't pay as much attention now as she once did; perhaps that due to the flood of fans, she finds it impossible to listen to them all, all the time. -- Shyy-Anzr: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642 "Frr ubj Tbq jvgu uvf yvtugavat nyjnlf fzvgrf gur ovttre navznyf, naq jvyy abg fhssre gurz gb jnk vafbyrag; juvyr gurfr bs n yrffre ohyx punsr uvz abg." -- Negnonavf