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Subject: Seventh Wave
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Date: 4 Oct 89 01:17:23 GMT
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Really-From: Michael Mendelson 

Richard writes:
	
	Re: Dan Efran's questions
	
	> Sorry if these have been answered already, but...  
	> 4.  Is Kate's Ninth Wave related to Sting's (Love is the) 
	> Seventh Wave?  If so, what's the reference to?  
	> (I assume it's literary)

	As some people have already said, I don't think there is any
	relation.  I have the impression that Sting's title is related
	to Henri CharriKre's _Papillon_, where the hero is rescued from
	Devil's Island by jumping into the seventh wave coming in from
	the ocean.

Actually, I once heard that Sting's seventh wave was a surfing/Hawaii
reference.  Apparently, every seventh wave is particularly well-suited
for surfing, so after catching a really big one, good surfers wait
out the next six and hop on the seventh.  Any latent surfers out there?