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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: I am Doug! (Long, detailed discussion on "The Dreaming")
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 13:12:14 EDT
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I accidentally exited before I had finished my comments on your posting.

> It also seems to me that unless you have some religious crutch to lean
> on, life is basically and fundamentally a futile endeavor.  Which isn't
> the same thing as saying it's not worth doing (there's always
> existential protest, etc.) -- but it is a frustrating thing to realize.

I don't really see how any one can exist in any moral way if you believe that
life is a futile endeavor.  However, that is more of a religious issue, and
I don't want to go into net.religion just to talk about that.

However, I am not sure that The Dreaming suggests that life is a futile
endeavor; several of the songs suggest impatience with the difficulty of
life, but not really a resignation, a feeling that it is hopeless.

> Speaking of "Houdini", has anyone figured out what the background vocals
> are singing while the foreground vocals are singing "I'd watch you
> breathe/ Bound and drowned/ And paler than you've ever been"?  I can

I have a related question.  While I understand how most of the song relates
to facts about Houdini, what does his saying "Rosabel, believe" refer to?
I know that Houdini and his wife made a sort of agreement, that whichever
died first would "come back" if possible to tell the other there was life
after death (notice, in fact, that this is another hopeful sign from Kate
Bush, an intimation of immortality), and that supposedly he did so.  Did
he also supposedly give some message, phrased that way, in some form?
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