# Stairway to Heaven *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 23 Feb 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Peter T. Cash *23 Feb 1999, 22:11* ... > Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven"? I'll leave you with the end and > let you work out the rest: ... > Which neatly ties in with Biblical allusion, popular tv shows, rock > and roll music. Doorways open upon vast vistas of Led Zeppelin as a > "crypto-Chrisitan" rock band; one can envision revelations with > titles like "The Chthulu Mask of Jesus: Rock 'n' Roll of the Ages." > > Hail Eris, to Infinity and Beyond! Actually, Stairway to Heaven was an encrypted message specifically beamed at me while I was looking for a job teaching philosophy. Why else the opening lines, "In regard to your Vita, baaaaby..."? Sgt. Rock (who was defenestrated from the groves of academe for mixing metaphors and hearing voices) ---