| Al Stewart – Joe the Georgian Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Okay, it's Al Stewart. I've lost a few brain cells along with the teeth. | |
| Al Stewart – Joe the Georgian Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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That Al Green missed the point by that much. Like me Al is an old man now, but we weren't in the 1970s when this song came out. Stalin was still alive when we were born, but we don't really remember him ourselves. Much better men (and women) came before who have no excuse at all for missing that point, or for from concealing it from us: "The Captain" is Lenin, and if he had not took the fever, there is no indication he would have done any better than Joe the Georgian. Here's an example of different were the Captain and his First Mate: "Promises, like piecrusts, were made to be broken." --V.I. Lenin "Gratitude is a disease of dogs." --I.V. Stalin Eric Arthur Blair, writing as George Orwell, had so much fun in Animal Farm telling us how bad Stalin really was that he recast all of it and had more fun writing 1984. Both are very, very good books, but they are not great books, because along with concealing his true name, Blair concealed the same truth. Neither of his finely-woven parables has a figure that could be Lenin. If you read only one Orwell book before you go to any place beyond the grave, be sure it is Homage to Catalonia. You can skip For Whom the Bell Tolls and the rest of Hemingway, at least about Spain; Hemingway drank in Spain and wrote stories; Blair fought and bled for the Spanish Republic, in consideration of which he was nearly executed by one of Stalin's stooges. Blair's wife got him off the Spanish Earth before he could be put under it. |
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