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From: Dan Parmenter <dan@lec.com> Subject: (whorl) Lily O Lily Date: 06 Feb 2001 15:05:42 From: "Endymion9" <endymion9@mindspring.com> > I can understand Silk's attraction to Hy. She is the beautiful (movie > star/pin up girl/prostitute) that many a young man develops a crush on. She > is his "Picture of Lily." But as the father says to the son in that Who > song, "Son now don't be silly." Dennis, that's brilliant! And how about the rest of the song? "She's been dead since 1929" Oh, how I cried that night If only I'd been born in Lily's time It would have been alright For me and Lily are together in my dreams And I ask you, "Hey mister, have you ever seen" "Pictures of Lily?" It's almost too perfect. "Lily" fits the Vironese naming convention as well as the Thieves' Cant; and of course since Hyacinth is partly Kypris, this fits the subject of the song - falling in love with the image of a woman long-dead. And here I thought that the perfect Vironese song would be Oreb's take on the Wailers' classic "No Woman. No Cry". Shellac *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.moonmilk.com/whorl/ *To leave the list, send "unsubscribe" to whorl-request@lists.best.com *If it's Wolfe but not Long Sun, please use the URTH list: urth@lists.best.com