“Stepping out, off the page, into the sensual world.
And then our arrows of desire rewrite the speech...”

—  Kate Bush

Source: Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)

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British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and … 1958

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“Stepping out, off the page, into the sensual world.”

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Context: Stepping out, off the page, into the sensual world.
And then our arrows of desire rewrite the speech…

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“He said I was a flower of the mountain, yes,
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"The Sensual World"; The lyrics of this song are derived from the last lines of Ulysses by James Joyce. Kate had initially wanted to set much of Molly Bloom's Soliloquy to music, just as Joyce had written it, but when the Joyce estate refused, she altered it enough as to not infringe on copyright. As she explained it in an interview: "The song was saying "Yes, Yes" and when I asked for permission they said "No! No!".
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