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Group: rec.music.progressive · Group Profile
Author: JohnBJohnB Date: Feb 19, 2008 04:02
On 19 Feb, 11:48, Eiron hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On Feb 19, 5:20 am, Eiron hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> ZepFloYes wrote:
>>>> " 'Man-Erg' reflects conflict, the good and the bad and individuality.
>>>> The third and closing track has a lonely lighthouse keeper reflecting
>>>> upon loss, the fraility of humanity before ultimately death brings its
>>>> own peace. Well, i've tried to piece together the story, it's
>>>> something like that, at least. Other theories hit upon re-arranging
>>>> the letters of 'Man Erg' into 'German' and the album becomes a tale of
>>>> Nazi Germany and Hitler. The lyrics throughout are certainly
>>>> fascinating and brilliantly artistic in a way few other lyricists have
>>>> ever been able to manage"
>>> You are so wrong. Man-Erg is an anagram of 'manger'.
>>> The song is about the thoughts of Jesus on the cross
>>> as he remembers his life and awaits his death.
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>> Oh yeah Jesus had a killer living inside him.... ROFLMAO!
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> You're even thicker than I thought. I had long supposed, from his lyrics,
> that Peter Hammill must have been educated by Jesuits. Man-Erg
> is just another example of their perverted theology.
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> Your post prompted me to check and of course I was right: Hammill
> was educated at Beaumont College, a Jesuit school which closed in 1967.
> I have been there a few times as it was later used as a training centre
> by ICL, now Fujitsu, but I never realised its history.
>
> What about your obsession with tennis, Raja?
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> Eiron.
Is that Beaumont near Windsor? If so, I went on a course there too
back in 1979.
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