Blank Frack, apologies

William Ansley · 02 Mar 2002, 06:14 · from urth-v0203.mbox · original

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From: William Ansley <wansley at warwick.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Blank Frack, apologies
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 01:14:30 -0500
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At 6:14 PM -0600 3/1/02, Seth Lombardi wrote:

>I am aware of the meaning of the word, and fully admit the song has=20
>little to do with a pelagic argosy sighting land.

My apologies. I didn't mean to imply that you didn't know what the=20
word meant, although I can see now, re-reading what I wrote, that it=20
must have come across that way. I was merely trying to illustrate=20
that Black's use of the word was appropriate and it wouldn't have=20
been all that hard for him to have found out what the word meant,=20
himself.

[...]

>Still, pelagic is one helluva weird word to put in a rock song,=20
>where the purpose is not to appear erudite, doncha think?

I suppose it is, but I don't listen to very much rock music, so that=20
aspect of the song hadn't occurred to me.
--=20

William Ansley

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