Morass
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- Grand Panjandrum
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Morass
This under-used and rather nice word whose meaning, a messy confusion, presumably has been derived from its other meaning of bog or marsh. But what is confusing about a bog? How did it get all the way to general confusion?
- call_copse
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Re: Morass
Apropos of nothing, this word always reminds me of Marillion and their certainly pretentious lyric to Incubus:
'Sentenced to rejection in the morass of anonymity'
"http://www.marillion.com/music/lyric.htm?id=25
Must mean sometnig. I kind of like the song mind you.
'Sentenced to rejection in the morass of anonymity'
"http://www.marillion.com/music/lyric.htm?id=25
Must mean sometnig. I kind of like the song mind you.
Iain
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- Grand Panjandrum
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Re: Morass
Well I have never heard of them before. I'm not much into music of this sort. I read the lyrics and I'm afraid I had no idea what it was on about. But watching a Youtube clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk2soZPEFIs
in which the lead bloke explains that it is all about the perils of taking pornographic polaroids, hasn't helped either.
Not sure I am going to be converted to the music. I expect it's very nice!
But frankly the whole thing is just a morass of sounds and words to me.
Interesting though.
in which the lead bloke explains that it is all about the perils of taking pornographic polaroids, hasn't helped either.
Not sure I am going to be converted to the music. I expect it's very nice!
But frankly the whole thing is just a morass of sounds and words to me.
Interesting though.
- call_copse
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Re: Morass
Hey, they were big when I was little. I don't listen to them now. This song is good though and may help explain their popularity at the time, in a morass of new wave types:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ4oaLUilBc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ4oaLUilBc
Iain
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