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Cracking the Simon Code

 
 
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2006

Building the Website

The annotated lyrics are demanding to create, but illuminating in the extreme. I'm using different background colors for each different bit of music. Dramatically different colors show the dramatically different themes. Minor color changes show the variations within the themes. For example, "It's outrageous ... " will be red, "Who's gonna love you ..." will be blue. The annotation will have two bands of red, and (count? gotta go do it!) other bands of blue.

 
 

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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