i think the chorus comes from the fact that the war devestated vietnam both economically and enviromentally (the "wasteland"), and that when pete wrote this song in 1971, americans had been occupying vietnam for well over a decade (and so, "teenage"). the title comes from 2 names:...
The song’s lyrics, meanwhile, are intriguingly ambiguous about whether the object of his desire is spiritual or sexual. It was also one of the first songs that Townshend wrote on piano; he happily recalled that its refreshing simplicity was “caused by my inability to play!” 42 “Let’s...
. It’s part history, part romance; part dysfunctional family drama. Maybe that was the hook. I wrote about lines in the closing scenes, spoken by Caesar over the corpses of the doomed lovers. I was certainly enthused about true love, and how they fought the social constraints of the ...
My next door neighbor moved a while ago and wrote a note that said, “I found my people!” She is an artist and refinishes furniture and had a little store downtown the same time I did and moved out of state to Oregon and found a little shop that rents out space, similar to ...
He added that with the global coronavirus pandemic, it had changed. “My panic disorder has morphed and twisted and brought along some darkness that seems to appear out of absolutely nowhere,” he wrote. “It can be terrifying.” “‘This Is the Song’ was written in the middle of a ...
Mark Twain wrote a book about Joan of Arc. Based on transcripts of her trial. Age 15, hears the voice of God. England controlled France and she was called to liberate her nation. She was illiterate, poor, and from a remote town yet she told people about it. Completely ridiculed and ...
on the other hand, does not manifest itself in such spectacular fashion. Cold fury is focused, calculated, unspectacular; it takes it’s time, waiting for the optimum moment. Cold fury usually can’t be appeased, once unleashed. As I wrote some time ago, regarding theSan Francisco Committee...
“begged” to be tested and was denied, and it wasn’t until he got a private doctor thathe found out he had the virus. “To have the mentality ‘I’m young and this can’t affect me’ is just straight up stupid and so dangerous to everyone around you,” wrote the 29-year-old....
SMJ, BJJ and JEL wrote and reviewed the manuscript. All authors reviewed and approved the final version of the manuscript. Funding No funding was obtained for this study. Availability of data and materials The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study are available from the ...
Disguising stolen text with manual applications of Roget’s-Thesaurus synonym lists is not new, but now has been automated. Cabanac, Labbé and Magazinov noticed and wrote about ‘tortured phrases’ as a common method of generating Lorem-Ipsum papers to fill a journal’s pages, see their prep...