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Originally Posted by Bubba Fleetwood
Just my thoughts here but first time I heard Wide Sargasso Sea, the name Rupert Hine jumped out at me. If you read what Stevie wrote about him in her notes for Rooms On Fire on Timespace, there are a few clues there. She writes that when he walked into a room, the room seemed like it was on fire and that when she left him "the rooms were still burning", and on WSS she writes about burning the Englishman's house down. Rupert is English and lived in England. She also sings about going " back into her red dress".......just like the one she is wearing on the cover of OSOTM ? Plus we all know that something happened between them and it was intense and shortlived. Stevie seemed to have some bitterness and regret over that whole relationship and that's what I feel in that song.
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I know what you mean, especially since she always made the mysterious break with Rupert
sound like Jane Eyre to me. Whenever I thought of her saying they could never be together for reasons having nothing to do with love, I'd say to myself, "Oh, he had a crazy wife in the attic, didn't he?" She made that relationship sound very gothic and mansion-y and ill-fated which is very much like WSS.
As for Lindsey, the song doesn't bring him to mind in any specific way, but I do link it to one of
his new songs. He sings there's a fire still burning, "in awhile she'll make it rain" or "in a while she'll make it snow." It's so beautiful the way he gives the woman control of even the seasons in his life, the chill in his heart.
There's no fire burning, just a soul crying.
Michele