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...just recently fallen off the tunedex. It's also about a guy who's pushing skag. Want proof? "When Quinn the Eskimo gets here, all the pigeons gonna fly to him." and "When Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna want a doze." The last is a pun on "want a doze." and "want a dose." Of course the whole scene is a lot like Waiting for Godot, which brings in God and religion and which sounds right for Dylan. And maybe H can be a religion. What this song's got in common with the other...
...world's major markets. It is the embodiment of 20th century scientism, an emotionally neutral, self-perpetuating system of techniques that can be used for good or evil. Drawn into The Firm's cushy embrace is Inventor Felix Charlock, who sees himself as a "thinking weed," a pun on Pascal's definition of man as a "thinking reed." The Firm wants Charlock for his new recording device, which leads to the development of the ultimate computer, Abel. This electronic memory bank is capable of deducing an individual's past and future...
...this is wondrously irrelevant to the overall lyric effect. Simon can be chided for the illusory pun of his title and for his helpful but distracting prefatory lines from Rilke: "It submerges us. We organize it. It falls to pieces. We organize it again and fall to pieces ourselves." But Simon is at ease with uncertainties and loose ends. In fact, loose ends are his antennae. How he uses them to convey his own private perceptions is his mystery...
Thereafter, the reader may find the rest of Mots d'H cures compulsive, as one horrendous bilingual audio-pun follows another. L'lle deja accornee . . . Satinees cornees translates as "The [lord of the] island already has horns! Satiny corneas . . ." but it is really Little Jack Horner who sat in a corner...
...FLYING NUN (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). The network calls this one, a bit about Sister Bertrille and her colleagues going into the grape-juice business, "The Days of Nuns and Roses," a pun-down on the CBS offering listed below...