From: cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Slartibartfast)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Elitist, Freewill hacking loser!
Date: 6 Nov 92 21:39:49 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

In article <BxB60E.174@acsu.buffalo.edu> v087n562@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Lewis A Bernstein) writes:
>As far as the writer in Losing It, somewhere, someone asked Neil who
>the writer was and he responded that he used Hemingway as a model.  
>If you want to interpret his lyrics in other means, do it, that is what
>makes songs, poems, books and philosophy interesting, your own interpretation.
>
>Has anybody else noticed that your favorite Rush albums change from time
>to time?  I'm currently in a HYF phase.  But that'll change soon.
>
>						Lew

	Since Losing It happens to by one of my *most* favorite Rush songs, I 
guess I would love to comment. 


	My 2/100 of $:  Losing it happens to be a song about the loss of 
what amounts to be the Midas Touch.  Both the dancer and writer (modeled after
Hemmingway) have been great, but are closing the door on their careers.  Also,
they are isolated from the rest of society, too.  Alone in their  anguish.  And
_we_ are the blind  who once could see, the bell tolls for us.  (Read the poem
by that cool British guy poet dude who said (No Man is an Island, Meditation
42? I think.)  We don't see the loss of these talents and since they die, a
part of us dies to.  "If a clod be washed away, Europe is the less" is the 
quote I think.  The song says "Sadder still to watch it die than never to have
known it, for you the blind who once could see, the bell tolls for thee."  So,
my assumption is that Neil says that is is worse to see someone acheive and 
fail  later than to have not acheived at all.  So I  guess  that is my opinion,
not fact of course.  I'll get off the soapbox, now.
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known it, for you the blind who once could see, 

-- 
***RUSH***YES***FLOYD***PEARLJAM***METALLICA***STING***PAULSIMON***REM***U2***
*"Today is Pearl Harbor Day!"  <= George Herbert Walker Bush Sept. 7, 1988 ;>*
*"We Fight the Fires, While We're Feeding the Flames" <= RUSH "Second Nature"*
*******(c-amin1@uiuc.edu)***Chintan Amin***UniversityofIllinois***GoIllini****