BOC: The Light That Never Was

[albert bouchard]

> Anyway, I just spotted a book titled "The Light That Never Was"," by
> one Lloyd Biggle.  It's science fiction, but that's about all the info I
> have on it (altho I could find out more if I really tried.)
>
> This sounds a lot like a line from "Astronomy."  Is there a connection?
> Does M'sieur Bouchard have any comment on this?  (Who wrote the lyrics
> to "Astronomy", anyway?)

Pearlman wrote the lyrics around 1970. Check when the book was written to see
who influenced who. OH, and the Astronomy lines go,"...the light that never =
warms=....." not was, so there's probably no connection.
Al