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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2006

"Beautiful"

On the net the lurkers (those who read but don't post) vastly outnumber the posters. I really, truly want to broaden the conversation; incorporate some more points of view; have some sober person tell me I'm nuts; have some impressionable person say, 'Wow. That makes sense.' All of which is to say I'd really appreciate some comments from you all.

So here I'll duck the really hard stuff, and look at the really easy one. The song is Beautiful, in so many ways.

 
 

About Paul Simon


Simon makes references to hiking on Surprise, ("counting every step") and on You're the One ("walking with my family" and "above the treeline"). As a guess, he is a hiker. The biography sheds no light on this.
 
 
 
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