Back to "Thick as a brick"
Posted by Sylvie Tougas on December 27, 2001
This as a reply to a topic discussed
a year ago!
As a french-speaking fan of Jethro Tull since their beginnings,
my lyrics interpretation is necessarily blended with my french consciousness.
But I think it allows sometimes to avoid being caught in one own's langage structure!
So I developed my own interpretation of the title 'Thick as a brick' for this
album of unsurpassed genius. From the start, it made me think of Baudelaire magnificent
poem 'L'albatros', the king bird of the skies, but crippled by his own majestic
wings when caught on the ground. It inspired me the thought of the eternal duel
between strenght and sensibility, body and soul, dreams and reality.
A duality
leaving some beings -- artists poets and thinkers, guided by soul, vision and
inspiration -- with no real power to act upon reality, while the concrete and
solid world is ruled by dumb, short-sighted and greedy 'builders of a burning
castle'. So maybe the thought in Anderson's mind was to claim this power for the
artist and the strenght to fulfill and live it on a real level, driven by a conviction
'as thick as a brick'. I also read in the Webster an interesting meaning for 'thick'
as 'a good-hearted person.': a brick made of gold so solid that no castle made
of it can never be destroyed.
26 décembre 2001
- Back to "Thick as a brick" Shuggie 12/27/01