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And I bet no one ....just no one ..... gets a thrill out of reading ...."do you?" and "knew you"?? . I think its incredible! They are so resonant so wonderful...I am too enraptured to mess about with Bible study! Oh and before you write me off, going back to UrPal and the diamond....this is hard...and interesting...thinking on my feet...in the case of the diamond...I would be fascinated on one level to learn the art of diamond cutting ....every bit of it right up to the tools and what they are cleaned with!! but it would be separated totally from my appreciation of a diamond...I could do that....but with poetry/songs....no I cant I cant do it...leave me with the thrill of it all.....(and now you have the dilemma ...is it Roxy or Black Sabbath?!!!!) Awww I give up!

danceme1000times wrote:

vashti wrote:Samson and Delilah, but I don't know about the kitchen chair.

I know about the kitchen chair!!! Lol

It has always amused me that people see some S&M reference in this line. To me, it is simply a metaphor for what I call the 'anti-muse'. Just as some women, like Marianne, stimulate creative work and are given the accolade of 'muse', so too there are others who have the opposite effect and drown the creative urge in domesticity.

My father, an author, had a very good friend who was a poet. The poet married a devastatingly beautiful but high-maintenance woman, who promptly forced him to get a job in the J Walter Thompson advertising agency. My father hated her, for, he told me, his friend never wrote another poem in his life.

She tied him to a kitchen chair.

Hydiot,

I'm in total agreement with your interpretation, here.

All the best, John E

I'd like to offer what the song means to me, nothing more:

Recognition of greatness, recognition of something more powerful than the sum of its parts.

Amateur Analyst wrote:I'd like to offer what the song means to me, nothing more:

Recognition of greatness, recognition of something more powerful than the sum of its parts.

How very gestalt.