![]() No, "Quicksand" most certainly isn't a dance song. ![]() The actual implications of that possible truth are severe. In between good and evil is "divine symmetry," and you can't get rid of one without getting rid of the other. Then Quicksand will just go back to the slow and brooding on songs like Delusional and the six minute plus drone of It would be cooler if you did. Therefore, it may be the moral, ethical thing to inflict hardship on humanity in order to provoke its next stage of development. Songs like Divorce, Backward and the blistering Blister (no pun intended) burst out of the gate like an epileptic drunark ready to lay redemption on the face of whoever he sees. For example, sometimes from the flames of hardship, strength and resilience are born. Also, in the pursuit of that morality, what seems to be good may actually be bad, and vice versa. The "occult" is a broad word, but a relatively consistent idea across the Golden Dawn and theosophist types is that humanity needs to evolve into its next form, and that form has a set of morality completely foreign to our current one. Underneath the typical glossy production and anthemic hook is a difficult struggle with. This is a song about falling into destructive patterns, and Hatchie seems deeply afflicted by this. These lyrics start to get into some real strangeness, but they tie into the occult beliefs that Bowie seems to be grappling with (and losing his mind to). While the majority of Harriettes lyricism up to this point has been about the joys and struggles of romance, Quicksand shows a more vulnerable side of her. I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought In the same year Hunky Dory was made, a book about Garbo was published under the title The Counterfeit Spy. Rebel Rebel author Chris O'Leary suggests this reference may actually be to a World War II British double-agent spy named Juan Pujol García, codename Garbo. Garbo was also a theosophist and occultist, bringing us back to that familiar theme.Īccording to author Nicholas Pegg in The Complete David Bowie, Garbo was one of Bowie's influences for the pose he strikes on the cover of Hunky Dory. If so, he never mentioned it to anyone on record, but it would make sense because he did say that this song is a combination of "narrative and surrealism." Maybe Bowie was sparked by a specific silent film of hers. She started as a silent film star, so this line harks back to the ones about Himmler. She had weary eyes that stand out even today in still pictures, particularly for the way they seem to contradict the soft, graceful beauty of her other features. Greta Garbo was an American actress (though born in Sweden) very popular in the 1930s and '40s.
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