Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!bloom-beacon!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Seventh Wave Message-ID: <8910040117.AA03295@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 4 Oct 89 01:17:23 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 21 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: Michael MendelsonRichard 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?