"I am no nightbird"

[strandinthewind]

I was watching HBO's terrific "Angels in America" and the first time the guy who is dying of AIDS hears the booming but disembodied voice of the Angel (brilliantly played by the brilliant Emma Thompson), the guy asks "Are you one of those spirits that carries me off to the other side" (or something like that). She replies "No, I am no nightbird." I almost fell over for the cool pseudo Stevie ref. to wit "I hear the call of the nightbird" in EO17 meaning the call of death in the hospital and, of course, the song "Nightbird."