Memory Links
It's been one of those days at work today, and to keep myself from going bananas after a morning of banging my head against the wall meetings, I was clicking around idly on YouTube. As can happen on that place, you play your own version of Six Degrees From Kevin Bacon. One thing led to another, and I ended up watching the old music video for Africa.
Yes, the song by Toto.
Now, it's been at least five years since I heard that song, but I started having flashbacks as soon as I began to listen to it. Not of Jennifer Beals "Flashdance" style legwarmers or big fuzzy sweaters or even guys wearing parachute pants, but (of all things) The Illearth War by Stephen R. Donaldson. Yes, I had that Darrell K. Sweet cover in my head, complete with Thomas Covenant and Elena (and all the rest). As I've mentioned before to other people, I didn't like the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant very much; however, since that song was all over the radio when I read The Illearth War, the two have become permanently linked.
There are some other examples of that phenomenon with books I've read: the Ebou Dar scenes in A Crown of Swords are linked with "All Souls Night" by Loreena McKennitt; The Fellowship of the Ring with the "Russian Easter Overture" by Rimsky-Korsakov; and The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey with "Dance Hall Days" by Wang Chung. (I'm still not sure how that last one popped in there, but it did.)
I'd imagine this isn't unique, so what other music / reading links are out there?
Yes, the song by Toto.
Now, it's been at least five years since I heard that song, but I started having flashbacks as soon as I began to listen to it. Not of Jennifer Beals "Flashdance" style legwarmers or big fuzzy sweaters or even guys wearing parachute pants, but (of all things) The Illearth War by Stephen R. Donaldson. Yes, I had that Darrell K. Sweet cover in my head, complete with Thomas Covenant and Elena (and all the rest). As I've mentioned before to other people, I didn't like the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant very much; however, since that song was all over the radio when I read The Illearth War, the two have become permanently linked.
There are some other examples of that phenomenon with books I've read: the Ebou Dar scenes in A Crown of Swords are linked with "All Souls Night" by Loreena McKennitt; The Fellowship of the Ring with the "Russian Easter Overture" by Rimsky-Korsakov; and The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey with "Dance Hall Days" by Wang Chung. (I'm still not sure how that last one popped in there, but it did.)
I'd imagine this isn't unique, so what other music / reading links are out there?