All My Love

To Retribution : what the fuck is wrong with you? Aren't there any mods doing their job here? Anyone can feel free to post any bit of racial nonesense on here?

Anyway, I've got a pretty good explanation for the Ariane riddle (yes, it's Ariane, not Aryan, duuuuuuh !). The answer lies in the Greek mythology. Here goes : there was this half human half bull creature called the Minotaur that was emprisoned in a maze. Theseus went into the maze to kill the evil Minotaur, and that he achieved. But in order to get back out of the maze, he was helped by one of Minos's (king of Crete) daughters, Ariane. She gave him a ball of thread that theseus unrolled as he searched for the Minotaur, so that he could retrace his path backwards along the thread and thus get out of the maze. There is a french expression, the literal translation of which is 'Ariane's thread', refering to the main concept or idea that provides the solution to a complicated problem. This is therefore how I read the lines 'Proud Ariane one word, my will to sustain - For me, the cloth once more to spin', which are another example of Plant's genius writing, making allmost subliminal connections between verses. The 'Ariane thread' (i.e. the key) to finding an answer to the question rased in the beginning of the song (Should I fall out of love, my fire in the light To chase a feather in the wind?) is to sustain his will, to keep on fighting and making the effort, and it's up to him spin the cloth once again, that is to say to carry the person he's talking to (maureen?) forward, as in the last part of the song, were his is the hand that sews time. Ariane's thread --> cloth --> sewing : brilliant writing!