a little note from an old friend of Steve Zirkel
(she saw and heard the KUT suzanne video)
> Most pleasant.
>
> This makes me think of the first time I heard 'Suzanne.' It was the
> sixties, and I was in Charlottesville Virginia, and had probably
> inhaled some sort of mind-enhancing smoke. I was sitting on a hill
> just outside of the cabin of my first real lover just after one of
> our initial explorations into the mystical world of physical
> lovemaking. I was in some sort of an afterglow, looking up at the
> trees as 'Suzanne' wafted through the air through the window from
> inside.
>
> I was looking at the thick canopy of leaves against the background of
> the night sky. There were two ways of seeing it: One, that the
> leaves were dark and the background sky was lighter in contrast, and
> alternatively, that the sky was dark and the leaves were light. In
> my mind I switched this optical illusion back and forth, back and
> forth, back and forth. Either way I saw it, I couldn't believe how
> fascinatingly beautiful it was. The hill we were on was in my mind
> not unlike the place where Suzanne was taking you down by the river.
> In my imagination, the river might have been just beyond where we
> sat, just over the crest of the hill.
>
> And then Leonard got to the part about Jesus was a sailor and only
> drowning men could see him.......I thought I might be seeing whatever
> God was, that I had drowned in some sort of divine ecstasy like he
> was describing, I could see reality for the first time, and was set
> free.
>
> Oh my.
>
> xox
Will Taylor and Strings Attached says:
a little note from an old friend of Steve Zirkel
(she saw and heard the KUT suzanne video)
> Most pleasant.
>
> This makes me think of the first time I heard 'Suzanne.' It was the
> sixties, and I was in Charlottesville Virginia, and had probably
> inhaled some sort of mind-enhancing smoke. I was sitting on a hill
> just outside of the cabin of my first real lover just after one of
> our initial explorations into the mystical world of physical
> lovemaking. I was in some sort of an afterglow, looking up at the
> trees as 'Suzanne' wafted through the air through the window from
> inside.
>
> I was looking at the thick canopy of leaves against the background of
> the night sky. There were two ways of seeing it: One, that the
> leaves were dark and the background sky was lighter in contrast, and
> alternatively, that the sky was dark and the leaves were light. In
> my mind I switched this optical illusion back and forth, back and
> forth, back and forth. Either way I saw it, I couldn't believe how
> fascinatingly beautiful it was. The hill we were on was in my mind
> not unlike the place where Suzanne was taking you down by the river.
> In my imagination, the river might have been just beyond where we
> sat, just over the crest of the hill.
>
> And then Leonard got to the part about Jesus was a sailor and only
> drowning men could see him.......I thought I might be seeing whatever
> God was, that I had drowned in some sort of divine ecstasy like he
> was describing, I could see reality for the first time, and was set
> free.
>
> Oh my.
>
> xox
posted Jan 20