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- From: saj@gozer.psyc.Virginia.EDU (Steve Jacquot)
- Subject: Re: Bad Songs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.035627.27195@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <1993Jan26.164748.18368@netcom.com> <2B65B5C0.20857@news.service.uci.edu> <1993Jan26.231920.6376@netcom.com>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:56:27 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.231920.6376@netcom.com> jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) writes:
- >In article <2B65B5C0.20857@news.service.uci.edu> dan@cafws2.eng.uci.edu (Dan Harkless) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan26.164748.18368@netcom.com> jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) writes:
- >>>
- >>>So it's a sort of musical version of "Naked Came an Ape," huh? Now I
- >>>understand! Thanks for finally revealing one of the great mysteries of
- >>>music (10 to 1, though, that musicologists 100 years from now will
- >>>still be debating about what McArthur Park means).
- >>
- >> Hmm? What's "Naked Came an Ape"? I realize what type of thing it
- >>must be by allusion to McArthur Park, but what is it, a fake text on evolution
- >>or something?
- >
- >It's a book written by a group of people who figured that a novel didn't
- >have to make any sense if it had enough graphic sex in it. Thus each
- >person wrote their own chapter with minimal continuity with the book
- >as a whole.
-
- That's "Naked Came the Stranger", by Penelope Ashe (pseudonym for a
- bunch of writers from Newsday).
-