As mentioned, it is the story of the first hermaphrodite, taken from Greek mythology. As Collins stated in one of the post-Gabriel gigs, 'a hermaphrodite is a person that is a man and a woman at the same time, in the same pair of trousers as it were'. I guess the audiences were a little less worldly-wise back then and needed it expalining.
@proggie, I don\'t think they were less wordly-wise then or that anyone\'s more wordly-wise now. But if the audience didn\'t know the word, they\'d have to ask someone or maybe go days or weeks for convenient access to the answer. They couldn\'t just stick their hand in their pocket, get a phone and look the answer up.
@proggie, I don\'t think they were less wordly-wise then or that anyone\'s more wordly-wise now. But if the audience didn\'t know the word, they\'d have to ask someone or maybe go days or weeks for convenient access to the answer. They couldn\'t just stick their hand in their pocket, get a phone and look the answer up.
As mentioned, it is the story of the first hermaphrodite, taken from Greek mythology. As Collins stated in one of the post-Gabriel gigs, 'a hermaphrodite is a person that is a man and a woman at the same time, in the same pair of trousers as it were'. I guess the audiences were a little less worldly-wise back then and needed it expalining.
@proggie, I don\'t think they were less wordly-wise then or that anyone\'s more wordly-wise now. But if the audience didn\'t know the word, they\'d have to ask someone or maybe go days or weeks for convenient access to the answer. They couldn\'t just stick their hand in their pocket, get a phone and look the answer up.
@proggie, I don\'t think they were less wordly-wise then or that anyone\'s more wordly-wise now. But if the audience didn\'t know the word, they\'d have to ask someone or maybe go days or weeks for convenient access to the answer. They couldn\'t just stick their hand in their pocket, get a phone and look the answer up.