Under Ice taps into vulnerability, rashness and terror. Spaced out speeding across still life... Maybe a mind-expanding trip taking the protagonist to the edge of self, to the beyond self... Speeding above/over ice becomes trapped below/under ice, and the self becomes dangerously split... Coke Crash...
('Ice' is street slang for cocaine; 'Splitting' is street slang for rolling marijuana and cocaine into a single joint; 'Kate Bush' is street slang for kind bud, an expensive and potent strain of marijuana!)
"Red, red roses" ... "Pinks and posies."
"Confess to me, girl." ... "The blackbird!" ...
"Bless me, father, bless me, father, for I have sinned" ...
"I question your innocence!" ... "She's a witch!"
"There's a stone around my leg" ...
"Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!" ... "Not guilty!" ...
"Get out of the waves! Get out of the water!"
In legend, roses purify and in times of plague people carried posies for protection (c.f. "Ring a-ring o' roses"). Rose thorns are said to represent human finitude and guilt because in The Paradise Garden the roses had no thorns.
('The Witch' is street slang for heroin; 'witch' and 'wings' are both street slang for heroin and cocaine; 'Black birds' and 'roses' are street slang for amphetamines.)
In Waking The Witch, the protagonist is burdened by having sinned. The blackbird is a symbol of temptations, especially sexual ones. So is the nature of her transgression sex as sin? Is Waking The Witch a 'trial of conscience'/"Salem witch trial" brought about by sex, sin, danger and mass hysteria?
'Of Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told
(The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,)...
The rose and poppy are her flower...' - from Lilith, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Lilith is held as a goddess of witches, the dark feminine principle. Some regard Lilith as the very first vampire who cannot die because she left Eden before the fall of Adam and Eve. Two primary characteristics are seen in legends about Lilith: Lilith as the incarnation of lust, and Lilith as a child-killing witch who strangles helpless neonates (wiki).
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Under Ice taps into vulnerability, rashness and terror. Spaced out speeding across still life... Maybe a mind-expanding trip taking the protagonist to the edge of self, to the beyond self... Speeding above/over ice becomes trapped below/under ice, and the self becomes dangerously split... Coke Crash... ('Ice' is street slang for cocaine; 'Splitting' is street slang for rolling marijuana and cocaine into a single joint; 'Kate Bush' is street slang for kind bud, an expensive and potent strain of marijuana!)
"Red, red roses" ... "Pinks and posies." "Confess to me, girl." ... "The blackbird!" ... "Bless me, father, bless me, father, for I have sinned" ... "I question your innocence!" ... "She's a witch!" "There's a stone around my leg" ... "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!" ... "Not guilty!" ... "Get out of the waves! Get out of the water!"
In legend, roses purify and in times of plague people carried posies for protection (c.f. "Ring a-ring o' roses"). Rose thorns are said to represent human finitude and guilt because in The Paradise Garden the roses had no thorns. ('The Witch' is street slang for heroin; 'witch' and 'wings' are both street slang for heroin and cocaine; 'Black birds' and 'roses' are street slang for amphetamines.)
In Waking The Witch, the protagonist is burdened by having sinned. The blackbird is a symbol of temptations, especially sexual ones. So is the nature of her transgression sex as sin? Is Waking The Witch a 'trial of conscience'/"Salem witch trial" brought about by sex, sin, danger and mass hysteria?
'Of Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told (The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,)... The rose and poppy are her flower...' - from Lilith, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Lilith is held as a goddess of witches, the dark feminine principle. Some regard Lilith as the very first vampire who cannot die because she left Eden before the fall of Adam and Eve. Two primary characteristics are seen in legends about Lilith: Lilith as the incarnation of lust, and Lilith as a child-killing witch who strangles helpless neonates (wiki).