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- From: jaeger@buphy.bu.edu (Gregg Jaeger)
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- Subject: Re: touching my monkey
- Message-ID: <102145@bu.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 16:34:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov15.222138.1@vax1.umkc.edu> tbeaudoin@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
- >>>COuntdown, with COuntdown being the worst of all. I wonder if
- >>>Neil got hit on the head before he wrote the lyrics to that one!
-
- >> I think it's the same problem he has with "Heresy" on _RtB_, he
- >> just has trouble pulling off those `contemporary history' lyrics.
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- > Would you agree that he also has a similar difficulty pulling
- >off the semi-contemporary "Manhattan Project" or even more contemporary
- >"Red Tide"? Why the difficulty?
-
- No, actually. I think "Manhattan Project" is wonderful. Maybe that's
- because it happened before he was born. I don't know why the problems
- with "Countdown" and "Heresy". Maybe the problem comes from hearing
- and reading too many press reports (my favorite journalistic phrase
- is "at this particular point in time"). Maybe he just can't get all
- those press cliches out of his mind?
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- "Red Tide" is also better than "Countdown" and "Heresy" (IMHO!!!),
- maybe because it's something more abstract in a way, biohazards.
- Maybe he just put more effort into it. There is nice irony in "RT"
- which is absent in "C" and "H".
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- Gregg
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- Gregg Jaeger (jaeger@buphy) Dept. of Physics (and Philosophy), Boston Univ.
- "You see, the quantum mechanical description is in terms of knowledge" -Peierls
- "One can _not_ put the psi-function... in place of the... thing" -Schroedinger
- "You may _not_ touch my monkey" -Dieter
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