Iron & Banana Peels
David Casseres
casseres at apple.com
Mon Oct 21 11:42:48 CDT 1996
[Doug sez]
>Well that iron there, you know, keeps on coming up. It's got those deep
>mysterious alchemic connotations and all. I mean there is the
>Niebelungen forging down there; and there's Tom Rush's "wind turn(ing)
>iron cold;" and Willy Nelsons "Pancho" "wore his skin like iron, and his
>breath like kerosene."
>And wasn't the dear old US of A forged in the ice and cold of Valley
>Forge, PA?
>Maybe it is all connected, who knows?
That would be ironic, wouldnit?
Cheers,
David
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