Re: attention Marc (Faceless Man interpretation)
From: "Marc Levitt" <Marc_Levitt@BROWN.EDU>
To: <CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM>
Date: Tue
6 Nov 2001 00:30:00 -0500
Re: attention Marc (Faceless Man interpretation) Alright, enough with the pretensions...Veronica, you're a real bitch.  I actually have a shit-ton of work to do, but I'd like to be able to devote time to this...honoring the request of a fellow poster who wants to hear what i have to say.  I always stick to the rule that I would never say anything over the internet to someone that I wouldn't say in person.  I like knowing that I don't have some retarded problem with aggression that can only be expressed through e-mail.  But I would have no trouble looking you in the eye and saying the same.

P.S. If you intend to bring up my original mean-spirited e-mail regarding Creed, don't. I would say that to Scott Stapp if he were standing next to me right now.

on 11/6/01 12:23 AM, Verrronica Smith at Verrronica@AOL.COM wrote:

Translation - Marc doesn't have a clue what the song is about.

In a message dated 11/6/01 12:17:32 AM Eastern Standard Time, Marc_Levitt@BROWN.EDU writes:


hmmmm...i'll take some time later to pick it apart.  my first impression is that the lyrics to Creep are much more profound than these.  I could have spent hours on Creep, looking at every last line and how each was a very complex expression of feeling and thought.  My first reaction, and what will eventually be a strong critcism, is that the imagery and themes in "Faceless Man" are so obvious as to be insulting.  It's like Robert Frost minus the poetry.  I don't want to name-drop too much, but this challenge reminds me of something that James Joyce once said to an interviewer regarding his book "Finnegan's Wake."  When asked why the book was so impossible to read, Joyce replied "Well, it took me seventeen years to write it...it ought to take someone seventeen years to read it!"  I've always thought that was a hilarious rep! ly.  But his words reveal something else of paramount importance.  Very few things in good art are obvious...as with the Radiohead lyrics.