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- From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
- Subject: Re: Bad Songs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.231920.6376@netcom.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:19:20 GMT
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- 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?
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- 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.
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