help finding website please

[melacine]

Hi,

I was looking for a website that listed all Stevie's lyrical inspirations. I know there have been a few over the years, but if anyone knows of one that is still out there, can you please post a link?

For example, some lines from the song Rooms on Fire come directly from the Picture of Dorian Gray story. I'm looking for a site that lists the passage from the book and the direct line that was inspired from it.

Thanks for any help anyone can give

luv,
Shel

[michelej1]

I don't know the website, but here are passages from Dorian Gray below. Also, from Paper Doll, you want a man with a future and a woman with a history (past):

It was the creation of such worlds as these that seemed to Dorian Gray to be the true object, or amongst the true objects, of life; and in his search for sensations that would be at once new and delightful, and possess that element of strangeness that is so essential to romance, he would often adopt certain modes of thought that he knew to be really alien to his nature, abandon himself to their subtle influences, and then, having, as it were, caught their colour and satisfied his intellectual curiosity, leave them with that curious indifference that is not incompatible with a real ardour of temperament, and that, indeed, according to certain modern psychologists, is often a condition of it.

Yet he was afraid. Sometimes when he was down at his great house in Nottinghamshire, entertaining the fashionable young men of his own rank who were his chief companions, and astounding the county by the wanton luxury and gorgeous splendour of his mode of life, he would suddenly leave his guests and rush back to town to see that the door had not been tampered with and that the picture was still there. What if it should be stolen? The mere thought made him cold with horror. Surely the world would know his secret then. Perhaps the world already suspected it.

For, while he fascinated many, there were not a few who distrusted him. He was very nearly blackballed at a West End club of which his birth and social position fully entitled him to become a member, and it was said that on one occasion, when he was brought by a friend into the smoking-room of the Churchill, the Duke of Berwick and another gentleman got up in a marked manner and went out. Curious stories became current about him after he had passed his twenty-fifth year. It was rumoured that he had been seen brawling with foreign sailors in a low den in the distant parts of Whitechapel, and that he consorted with thieves and coiners and knew the mysteries of their trade. His extraordinary absences became notorious, and, when he used to reappear again in society, men would whisper to each other in corners, or pass him with a sneer, or look at him with cold searching eyes, as though they were determined to discover his secret.

Of such insolences and attempted slights he, of course, took no notice, and in the opinion of most people his frank debonair manner, his charming boyish smile, and the infinite grace of that wonderful youth that seemed never to leave him, were in themselves a sufficient answer to the calumnies, for so they termed them, that were circulated about him. It was remarked, however, that some of those who had been most intimate with him appeared, after a time, to shun him. Women who had wildly adored him, and for his sake had braved all social censure and set convention at defiance, were seen to grow pallid with shame or horror if Dorian Gray entered the room.

He hated to be separated from the picture that was such a part of
his life, and was also afraid that during his absence some one
might gain access to the room, in spite of the elaborate bars that he
had caused to be placed upon the door.

He was quite conscious that this would tell them nothing. It was
true that the portrait still preserved, under all the foulness and
ugliness of the face, its marked likeness to himself; but what could
they learn from that? He would laugh at any one who tried to taunt
him. He had not painted it. What was it to him how vile and full of
shame it looked? Even if he told them, would they believe it?

[Dreammms]

Lisa's awesome page...


http://www.inspiredangel.com/index2.php

[David]

Originally Posted by Dreammms

Lisa's awesome page...


http://www.inspiredangel.com/index2.php

Lisa rocks. Lisa, you don't have SISTERS OF THE MOON on there ...?

"She was dark at the top of the stairs"
-----> "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs," William Inge (no discernible thematic relation between song & play, unless you consider the father Jess Nicks, the mother Barbara Nicks, the daughter Stevie Nicks, & the mixed-up son Chris Nicks).

[melacine]

Originally Posted by Dreammms

Lisa's awesome page...


http://www.inspiredangel.com/index2.php

THANK YOU!!!!

That was the exact page I had in my mind, I just couldn't remember where the heck I saw it.

I appreciate everyones help!!!

luv,
Shel

[Sahara]

inspiredangel.com is a really beautiful site