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Hello all. Newbie U2-admirer here (wouldnt presume to call myself 'fan' in present company)
I was looking at C.S.Lewis' book The Great Divorce and wondered if it may have inspired the title for U2's latest album? The video for Hold me, Thrill me, Kiss me, Kill me shows Bono with a copy of his book The Screwtape Letters so he's probably read The Great Divorce too.
Here's some text from the preface to The Great Divorce:
You cannot take all luggage with you on all journeys; on one journey even your right hand and your right eye may be among the things you have to leave behind.
The icon for the CD is a suitcase full of love. The lyrics in Walk On continue the luggage/baggage metaphore of a spirtual journey saying:
You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been.
A place that has to be believed to be seen.
The lyrics go on to list the things you'll need to leave behind as (I think) various roadblocks to spirituality, similar to C.S.Lewis's references to scriptures that say you may need to pluck out an eye or a hand.
Leave it behind
You've got to leave it behind
All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you steal
All this you can leave behind
I'm a C.S. Lewis-admirer as well as a U2-admirer so I thought this connection was pretty cool.
Do you hard-core fans have any thoughts?
I was looking at C.S.Lewis' book The Great Divorce and wondered if it may have inspired the title for U2's latest album? The video for Hold me, Thrill me, Kiss me, Kill me shows Bono with a copy of his book The Screwtape Letters so he's probably read The Great Divorce too.
Here's some text from the preface to The Great Divorce:
You cannot take all luggage with you on all journeys; on one journey even your right hand and your right eye may be among the things you have to leave behind.
The icon for the CD is a suitcase full of love. The lyrics in Walk On continue the luggage/baggage metaphore of a spirtual journey saying:
You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been.
A place that has to be believed to be seen.
The lyrics go on to list the things you'll need to leave behind as (I think) various roadblocks to spirituality, similar to C.S.Lewis's references to scriptures that say you may need to pluck out an eye or a hand.
Leave it behind
You've got to leave it behind
All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you steal
All this you can leave behind
I'm a C.S. Lewis-admirer as well as a U2-admirer so I thought this connection was pretty cool.
Do you hard-core fans have any thoughts?