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posted by
davidt
on Thursday August 07 2003, @08:00AM
Tanner writes:
The Guardian recently published a short fiction piece on their website by Dave Eggers (author of "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) called "Something Might Plummet. Something Might Soar." In it the character listens to "Well I Wonder" and there's also a bit more commentary on Morrissey. It is definitely a good read. If you do not want to read the whole thing here are the specific references. "Your Toshiba Walkman is clipped to your shorts in back and you've got your Smiths mix on. You've fast-forwarded to Well I Wonder and you swerve a little to prove to the song that you love it. Why does this song speak to you? You are not sure. Maybe it's that, like Mr Morrissey, you aren't sure yet whether this is the world you were intended for." "You'll wait a minute or two more, while you rewind Well I Wonder. The song only becomes at all meaningful, of course, after seven consecutive plays; but even then it's not even close to enough. Between seven and twenty plays one begins to grasp its power, but not until you've reached thirty do you pay it the respect it's due; only then have you earned the right to listen while swaying, to listen while lying on the lawn of Mrs G's house, only then have you walked a mile in the shoes of Mr Morrissey, great poet in the tradition of Keats and Yeats and possibly even Roddy Frame."
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And this is a good thing? (Score:0, Insightful)
It is over! I really appreciate everything David has done to keep Morrissey's career alive, but the man can no longer write moving lyrics. He's old, and is not aging well.
Get out of the chat room, and life your life.
It is over!
Shoddy Roddy (Score:0)
Dave Eggers... (Score:1, Insightful)
I hope Jack Kerouac dies. (Score:1, Insightful)
Completely unmoving minds.
It all began to fall apart with the beat poets.
You will not be wrong if you blame it on the beat poets.
i miss 'smarter feller' (Score:1)
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ah touching (Score:0)
The Roddy Frame reference at the end made me laugh... surely he can't be serious!
The rest of you dopes oughta loosen up a bit.
easymeat.
Well, I DO Wonder... (Score:1)
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Personally I dont know who Dave watsisface is.. (Score:0)
It was a track that always passed me by until about 6 months ago I am 37