Helter Skelter

[Erthona]

Knot,

(Feels like you're taking a second bite out of McLean's pie)

Guilty, a number of references do come from American pie. It's true,some are precursors, time wise, to the 60's. I tend to group them together as a movement (no pun intended), just as 1942 was part of the modernist movement that gave rise to the counter culture, such as the Beat poets. So even though it is mainly about the 60's, there are a number of things that informed the sixties.


"Spook" a derisive name for the "Holy Ghost" now that disillusionment has set in.
But also a popular racist epithet of the time, or am I misremembering?

Didn't even think about that connotation, but you are correct.

thanks for the further comment,

best,

dale

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Mark,

Thanks for all your correction, I agree with all of them. How that Yoda-speech worked it's way in I don't know

"Whiter Shade of Pale. I doubt many readers are familiar with Procol Harum..."

I always though of "Whiter Shade of Pale" as a seminal song of the 60's.
I can't believe neither you nor Knot complained about my Chaucer reference of "Wife of Bath". Of course he used it satirically and I followed suite (it is also an allusion to the "Fat Lady" singing).

Thanks again for all the catches, most helpful.

dale