# Lily O Lily

*The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 06 Feb 2001*

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### Dan Parmenter
*06 Feb 2001, 15:05*

> From: "Endymion9" <endymion9 at mindspring.com>
> I can understand Silk's attraction to Hy.  She is the beautiful (movie
> star/pin up girl/prostitute) that many a young man develops a crush on.  She
> is his "Picture of Lily."  But as the father says to the son in that Who
> song, "Son now don't be silly."

Dennis, that's brilliant!  And how about the rest of the song?

"She's been dead since 1929"
Oh, how I cried that night
If only I'd been born in Lily's time
It would have been alright

For me and Lily are together in my dreams
And I ask you, "Hey mister, have you ever seen"
"Pictures of Lily?"

It's almost too perfect.  "Lily" fits the Vironese naming convention
as well as the Thieves' Cant; and of course since Hyacinth is partly
Kypris, this fits the subject of the song - falling in love with the
image of a woman long-dead.

And here I thought that the perfect Vironese song would be Oreb's take
on the Wailers' classic "No Woman.  No Cry".

Shellac


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### Endymion9
*08 Feb 2001, 04:38 · follows Dan Parmenter*

Dan Parmenter scribed:

> And how about the rest of the song?
> 
> "She's been dead since 1929"
> Oh, how I cried that night
> If only I'd been born in Lily's time
> It would have been alright
> 
> For me and Lily are together in my dreams
> And I ask you, "Hey mister, have you ever seen"
> "Pictures of Lily?"
> 
> It's almost too perfect.  "Lily" fits the Vironese naming convention
> as well as the Thieves' Cant; and of course since Hyacinth is partly
> Kypris, this fits the subject of the song - falling in love with the
> image of a woman long-dead.

Dan.  Thanks for filling in the rest of the song.  I hadn't carried it to
that progression and much enjoyed your insight. :)

Dennis/Endy  (Now struggling up to p. 219 in RTTW).
http://home.mindspring.com/~endymion9/index.htm


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