Hot Rails to Hoboken

Andrew A. Apold mordru at MAGG.NET
Mon Feb 26 12:15:14 EST 1996


>theo writes:
>
>>Right.   But my own favorite moment comes a bit later in the song.
>>When Al speaks of 'a place where you can see relics of jewels...AND
>>AMTRAK TRAINS!'  Well my jaw about hit the ground on that one.  And
>>I've been a BOC/Al fan forever, but he's still able to freak me out,
>>seemingly at will.  Al realizes that the appeal to us whackos is this
>>freaked-out, tripped-out stuff a lot more than 'Burnin'
>
>Wow and I really tried hard to articulate that one correctly, it's 'ant
>track tools' as in archeology.
>Al

I thought it was an intentional thing to make it ambiguous.  Comparing
Amtrak trains to ant trails, as it were....
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Andrew A. Apold, aka                        "I was corrupt before I had power!"
Roger Shrubstaff                                 - Random, upon being accused
Chancellor                                            of being corrupted since
Barony of Silverwater                             becoming King....
Kingdom of the Burning Lands                (Roger Zelazny, d. 1995)



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