Sunday 15 September 2013

A Formative Influence.

I couldn’t let a whole day go by without posting a favourite video, now, could I?

As a youngster, this song got well inside me. Even though the lyrics are enigmatic, and even a bit ropey in parts, the line ‘…her face, at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale’ is surely verging on poetry.

What really turned me on my head, though, was another line:

‘One of sixteen vestal virgins who were heading for the coast.’

What sort of an impression do you think that would make on a young mind already showing the first signs of a High Romantic tendency?


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