OT "Windy"
Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Tue Oct 20 15:26:40 UTC 2009
At 10/20/2009 08:54 AM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com> wrote:
>OT: I beg to differ that the song "Windy" refers to the weather
>rather than a person. It has certainly never been clear to
>me. Note that the first word of the song, referring to Windy, is
>"Who", and there are lines like "For Windy has stormy eyes". Yes,
>this may be anthropomorphic imagery, but the result is ambiguity,
>perhaps deliberate.
What year was the hurricane named "Wendy"?
Joel
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