To: mbarker12474
I take it the Doors song you are referring to in your last sentence is “The End”, which several lines reference Oedipus.
Ever hear of that?
It’s an old story.
49 posted on
05/21/2013 7:35:27 AM PDT by
Verbosus
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To: Verbosus
To: Verbosus
Oh Flanders there can’t grasp that Jim Morrison could be thinking of a classic story reference in a song. I just HAS to be the drugs ir being a hippie. And I was born in 1972 so certainly not a hippie but LOVE the Doors. Even had the privilege of meeting Robby Krieger in 1993 at a local sshow.
53 posted on
05/21/2013 7:41:26 AM PDT by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: Verbosus
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I interpret "The End" as being about a coup d'etat in South Vietnam in 1963--although I may be the only one who has come up with such an interpretation. Here is some of the symbolism in the song:
- Stranger's hand--foreign aid
- desperate land--South Vietnam
- Roman wilderness of pain--government-by-coup-d'etat, ancient Roman style
- children are insane--South Vietnam'm coup-happy military elite
- King's highway--Route 1, the "street without joy"
- Weird things inside the gold mine--the State Dept. or CIA
- summer rain--South Vietnam's summer rainy monsoon
- West--SEATO
- snake--the Soviet bloc
- ancient lake--Communism
- seven miles--The Warsaw Pact's seven members
- he's old...--Nikita Khrushchev or Ho Chi Minh
- blue bus--military vehicle in which Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu were held before they were killed
- killer--General Duong Van Minh
- ancient gallery--the CIA or USIA
- hall--the presidential palace
- sister--Tran Le Xuan, Diem's sister and Nhu's wife, and South Vietnam's "first lady"--in Los Angeles at the time of the coup
- father--President Ngo Dinh Diem
- brother--Ngo Dinh Nhu
- mother--Tran Le Xuan or journalist Marguerite Higgins, defender of Diem and author of Our Vietnam Nightmare (New York: Harper, 1965)
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