Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bloom-beacon!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: (none) Message-ID: <8910031821.AA24553@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> Date: 3 Oct 89 18:17:00 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 14 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: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. Richard