1994 - "I had just finished reading "Shikasta" by Doris Lessing. I was in the Canary Islands sitting on the beach. That book is a work of fiction, which the author is very careful to point out in the introduction to the book. It's a beautiful myth that is built out of the myths of all cultures. The origins of the world and it's short future. It's very poignant and disturbing, but beautiful at the same time. Somehow that all went together with the imagery of the place, being on the beach under the moon. 'Planet of the Clowns' is a song I've always really liked, actually. There's that sense of standing on the edge of space, when you're near the ocean. But a person standing at the edge of the ocean is kind of comparable to the world on the edge of the galaxy. That sense of being on the edge of something so much bigger of which you are an inescapable part but which will engulf you if you don't keep yourself together." - from "Closer to the Light with Bruce Cockburn" by Paul Zollo, SongTalk, vol.4, issue 2, 1994. - Submitted by Rob Caldwell.
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