ThatLightInYourEyes Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Does anyone know if the line about a "girl with sun-browned legs" is a reference to the narrative passages in Lolita about one of Humbert Humbert's early memories? And before you ask, no, I am not calling Neil a pedo. Please don't answer this with anything from your special folders, thanks. :sarcastic: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narps Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I thought Lolita walked like a woman and talked like a man. I don't recall anything about her legs... 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Not Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 What Would Spaghetti Lee Say: The Thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Analog Grownup Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I don't think there's any connection. The next line is 'Dances on the edge of his dream' so I think he just used it to paint an image in our mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narps Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 :sigh: .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Analog Grownup Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 :sigh: .... Is it me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narps Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 :sigh: .... Is it me?You guys are just to smart for me to keep up with most of the time.... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Analog Grownup Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 :sigh: .... Is it me?You guys are just to smart for me to keep up with most of the time.... :) I could say the same about you Thought I had said something stupid. It happens from time to time, you know ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymaker Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 The Analog Grownup should be able to discourse mightily on the Analog Kid (he was once one himself). 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Analog Grownup Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 The Analog Grownup should be able to discourse mightily on the Analog Kid (he was once one himself). Yup! He was just fantasizing ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatLightInYourEyes Posted December 17, 2014 Author Share Posted December 17, 2014 (edited) :sigh: .... Is it me?You guys are just to smart for me to keep up with most of the time.... :) Stop saying that. We don't believe it, so don't even try. :P Edited December 17, 2014 by ThatLightInYourEyes 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narps Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 :sigh: .... Is it me?You guys are just to smart for me to keep up with most of the time.... :) Stop saying that. We don't believe it, so don't even try. :P:) ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue J Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I couldn't say definitively that it's a direct reference to Nabokov, but I think it's entirely possible, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savagegrace26 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I wish movie trailers were this creative nowadays http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0kES3oRCa8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slack jaw gaze Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 According to Neil Peart in the book, Roadshow: Landscape With Drums, A Concert Tour By Motorcycle, the line, "The fawn-eyed girl with sun-browned legs" is written about a girl Neil met while camping in Canton, Ohio with his family during the summer of 1967. Neil fell in love with this girl; she was from Beach City and he wrote her letters all summer long. (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, WA) This song may be inspired by an Edgar Lee Masters poem called Jonathan Houghton. From the poem:"And a boy lies in the grassNear the feet of the old man,And looks up at the sailing clouds,And longs, and longs, and longsFor what, he knows not:" From the song: "The boy lies in the grass, unmovingStaring at the sky""When I leave I don't knowWhat I'm hoping to find" The poem ends with the now old boy returning to his old childhood home and finding it commercially developed and busy, and longing for the way it used to be. The song ends by hinting that the boy will someday desire what he's leaving behind. (thanks, emerson - Butler, PA) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue J Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I wasn't aware that Canton was a hotbed of camping activity (nor for sun-browned legs, for that matter). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coventry Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 According to Neil Peart in the book, Roadshow: Landscape With Drums, A Concert Tour By Motorcycle, the line, "The fawn-eyed girl with sun-browned legs" is written about a girl Neil met while camping in Canton, Ohio with his family during the summer of 1967. Neil fell in love with this girl; she was from Beach City and he wrote her letters all summer long. (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, WA) This song may be inspired by an Edgar Lee Masters poem called Jonathan Houghton. From the poem:"And a boy lies in the grassNear the feet of the old man,And looks up at the sailing clouds,And longs, and longs, and longsFor what, he knows not:" From the song: "The boy lies in the grass, unmovingStaring at the sky""When I leave I don't knowWhat I'm hoping to find" The poem ends with the now old boy returning to his old childhood home and finding it commercially developed and busy, and longing for the way it used to be. The song ends by hinting that the boy will someday desire what he's leaving behind. (thanks, emerson - Butler, PA) Right on! It only takes 15 posts of snarkiness and witty cynicism before someone finally comes up with the accurate response. I love this forum :) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citizen of the World Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 To quote Neil from his book "Roadshows" "The summer before I turned fifteen, my family camped outside Montreal to visit the World's Fair, Expo '67, and at the campground, I met a girl from Ohio. Her father was extremely watchful (warning her that Canadian boys had 'Roman hands and Russian fingers'), and we never even kissed, but I fell hopelessly in fourteen-year-old love...I always remembered her ('the fawn-eyed girl with sun-browned legs' in the song 'The Analog Kid')" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorkingAllTheTime Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 To quote Neil from his book "Roadshows" "The summer before I turned fifteen, my family camped outside Montreal to visit the World's Fair, Expo '67, and at the campground, I met a girl from Ohio. Her father was extremely watchful (warning her that Canadian boys had 'Roman hands and Russian fingers'), and we never even kissed, but I fell hopelessly in fourteen-year-old love...I always remembered her ('the fawn-eyed girl with sun-browned legs' in the song 'The Analog Kid')" LOL. Trying to picture Neil as some sort of brutish marauder now is comical.... at the age of 14? I think I might have torn a muscle laughing so hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorkingAllTheTime Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 As for the whole context of the line in the song.... when I was a teenage boy my thoughts were generally consumed by two things.... baseball and sun browned legs. I always took it as the typical daydreaming of a teenage boy. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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