[UA] Cloudbusting and an archetype

[James O'Rance]

"John C" <john1x at hotmail.com> said:

 >>>Is this song about Wilhelm Reich?  I don't know if he had a daughter, 
but the cloudbusting machine and the government agents dragging him away 
certainly *sound* like Reich.<<<

Yes, in an indirect way. I doubt that Kate's an orgonist (sp?) but she was 
inspired by a book written by Peter Reich, Wilhelm's son.

I find it difficult to think of someone with Kate Bush's voice as a boy, 
however, so when i was writing I automatically wrote "daughter."

This URL has a lot of Kate Bush quotes about the song:

<http://children.ofthenight.org/cloudbusting/music/cloudbusting.html>

Germane to the ideas I was having is the following:

"t was just calling me from the shelf, and when I read it I was very moved 
by the magic of it. It's about a special relationship between a young son 
and his father. The book was written from a child's point of view. His 
father is everything to him; he is the magic in his life, and he teaches him 
everything, teaching him to be open-minded and not to build up barriers."


James O’Rance
“Divine being creates petting zoo. It gets out of hand.”
- The Bible (summarised by John W. Mangrum)

http://www.geocities.com/dragon-dreamer/



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