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The_Jackster 12:26 am UTC 10/25/07 |
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re: Favorite Jim line (if done before, why not do it again) - tragichippy 11:11 pm UTC 10/24/07 |
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Right you are. The couplet was actually written by Ross A. Macdonald, who you'll note Jim acclaims in his first blog entry of September 5, 2007 as "America's greatest detective novelist of all time." In his spare time, he wrote poetry for newspapers, and this was one of the sonnets he churned out.
Jim first re-used it in 1972 as "the Call of the Rhinegold," apparently printed on one of the first pages of the script for Rhinegold, as seen on this site. It has also been used (to great effect) as the opening track of the Pandora's Box album Original Sin (where I assume it was mistakenly credited to Jim) and as the intro to one of the DOTV demos of "Total Eclipse" on Smeg's site.
> nice choice. not Jim though.
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> > If light were dark and dark were light
> > The moon a black hole in the blaze of night
> > A raven's wing as bright as tin
> > Then you, my love
> > Would be darker than sin
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good info and another good lyric - LordRahl 06:29 pm UTC 10/25/07 |
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