Well, swell, Phil, Mike, et al. So now that you've exposed and humiliated me as not being a David Bowie listener, maybe you could tackle the rest of David Ritchie's poem. Lawrence -----Original Message----- From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Phil Enns Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 5:46 AM To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Poem David Ritchie wrote: "So then I recalled Major Tom, singing in his orbit suit," to which Lawrence Helm replied: "You recall something about the astronaut Tom Jones and associate him with the singer Tom Jones." In 1969, David Bowie released an eponymous album that included the song 'Space Oddity'. In the song, there is a Major Tom who has an unfortunate (?) experience in space, and sings: "Here am I floating round my tin can Far above the Moon Planet Earth is blue And there's nothing I can do." Sincerely, Phil Enns Toronto, ON ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html