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Well, no great mystery; the caprifole stanza continues botanically: "Downward a leaf inclines its tip/ and drops from its tip a pearl." It is clear that Nabokov is describing a rain-wet shrub, but has his own good reasons for leaving indefinite precisely which shrub. It is as if he had written of a cavalryman saddling his ungulate (horse? cow? moose?) and riding away...
...song's final stanza is a footnote to 1968, when James left New York trying to escape heroin and personal squalor, and thus brought to an end The Flying Machine, a struggling group started by his friend Danny Kootch...
...most self-revealing effort. Knocking 'Round the Zoo, which tells what it was like in a mental hospital, where James spent nine months, comes out heavily armed with witty, riffy musical irony?at least until the end, when Taylor tacks a chilling descant of bedlamite sounds onto the following stanza...
...Alive and Well and Living in the Hollywood Hills, I did begin to care some for the man as I sat through two dozen of Brel's songs. Brel never fools around with key and time changes, and, after Bacharach, popular music that relies on conventional construction and stanza development has to work hard not to sound tedious...