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*** And of course:

{{quote|"You want it all, ''but you can't have it!''"}}

** There are some fans [[Epileptic Trees|who believe]] that [[The Eighties]] pop album ''Invisible Touch'' is a [[Concept Album]] about [[The End of the World as We Know It|nuclear war]].

** Or Jethro Tull's "A Passion Play". Or "Dark Side of the Moon", and everything [[Pink Floyd]] did afterwards.

** Dr. John Zmirak [http://takimag.com/article/where_bad_ideas_go_to_die#axzz1d3X0POvP identified] one major reason why this kind of analysis can sometimes produce results that seem so outlandish and bizarre to ordinary laymen. All too often, scholars simply state their premises and proceed to analyze a work in light of those premises... but rarely does anyone ask whether those premises are actually ''true''. A scholar might, therefore, produce a Marxist or Freudian or Feminist reading of Tony Orlando's "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" without ever considering whether Marxism or Freudianism or Feminism have or do not have any instrinsic validity as philosophical systems (he takes it as instructive that Economics departments rarely teach Marxism anymore and Psychology departments have been quietly moving away from Freudianism for decades).

{{quote|-- ''"I look forward with interest to [[Artistic License Chemistry|alchemical]] readings of Sophocles and [[Artistic License: Biology|Lamarckian]] Biblical criticism. I’d really enjoy a good, solid account of Toni Morrison firmly grounded in Nostradamus."''}}

 

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