HW- Levitation Rules

[William Duffy]

Mark Edmonds wrote:
>
> In article <n1348613990.5029 at onecolor.com>, Dane Carlson
> <dcarlson at ONECOLOR.COM> writes in follow up to Levitation being weak:
>
> >Out and Intake and ASAM gets my vote as weakest (not awful, just weak) HW
> >release's.
>
> ASAM gets my vote as one of the strongest basically because it contains
> the awesome Steppenwolf and is backed up with things like Reefer
> Madness, Chronoglide Skyway, Kadu Flyer, City of Lagoons, whatever that
> funky track opening side 2 is and so on...
>
> This leads me onto a convenient question:
>
> The lyrics for Steppenwolf are really brilliant, especially the way they
> are sung with the hard edged consonants and exagerated pronounciation.
> However, I have this nagging feeling that Calvert didn't in fact write
> all these words and some should be credited to an ancient chinese
> philosopher/poet. No I'm not kidding. Lines like "Under skies heavy with
> snow, my eyes are convex lenses of ebony, embedded in amber" I think
> should be credited to someone other than Calvert.
>
> Can anyone say whether this theory is total bullshit or if there is some
> element of truth to it and maybe suggest where I picked this information
> up from?
>
Maybe it's in the Herman Hesse novel, which I have, but never got round
to reading?

William