[LMB] [SPAM?] Re: OT: stalkers

Elizabeth Holden azurite at rogers.com
Thu May 24 15:36:10 BST 2007


> paal at gis.net wrote:
> >> Has anyone noticed how much stalking resembles
> old fashioned romance taken to extremes? 

Well, yes, but isn't that the whole point? The stalker
rationalizes that what he is doing is 'okay' because
it's love. 

> How about "I'd rather see you dead, little girl,
> than see you with another man"? Ironic for a 
> songwriter later murdered by a (non-sexual) 
> stalker.

Nobody ever said songs have to be about good
behaviour, any more than books, poetry, movies or TV
shows.

I love that song.

Can't say I'd want it at my wedding, though.  Maybe at
the reception.  As irony.

I like irony.

namaste,
Elizabeth



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