Roddy - apologies for underestimating the allusions of the title...but
your explanation did send me back to the poem again with eyes
wider open...
(+, in my defence, no Hootie and Blowfish albums to admit to......)
and to Viv, sorry if my description made you feel old, but a recent
review did call them "the best bar-rock band in the world"; + I
recently saw them at Glastonbury Festival, and they do tend to go
on a bit live. Having said that, though, check out the third album
(THIS DESERT LIFE) for a return to the form of the first album....
So, deliver me in the belly of a black-winged bird,
NIck
>
> Erm, this is going to sound a bit clever dicky, but the title August (and
> Nothing After) alludes to -
>
> 1 The Counting Crows album title (a good album which took a long time to
> creep up on me and which I later got a bit tired of, except 'Anna Begins')
>
> 2 The fact that the poem is 'after' August Kleinzahler's poem
>
> 3 The fact that Hibs' season was over already in August, after the
> tremendous drubbing by Hearts
>
> 4 The fact that there is 'nothing after' death (unless you can prove me
> wrong)
>
> 5 The sense of 'august' as in revered, venerable...
>
> Roddy
>
> PS but if you've got any Hootie and the Blowfish or Blues Traveller CDs in
> your collection, consider yourself unforgiven!
>
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