Check this out--J.F.K. Tribute--November 22,1963---It's Effect On Our Country, The World

[Charles Drago]

Hey,

I have to remind everyone that "Childhood's End" is a goddam song...not a thesis on JFK's assasination.

Apparently you need to be reminded that Childhood's End is the title of a novel by Arthur C. Clarke written in 1953.

Titles cannot be copyrighted, so if you were inspired by Clarke's great book and your song is, in part, an homage to the author and/or a re-examination of the novel's central theme, you might want to so note in future commentary.

But it was indeed the bullet from one killer's rifle that blew off half of Kennedy's head.

The HELL it was! Your lyric is fatally undernourished by fact.

Indeed, you haven't a clue regarding shot sequence and wounds. This is not a valid art criticism, but rather an evaluation of your character and intellect necessitated by your arrogance.

The fact of the matter is that writing it affected me more that the lyrics to hundreds of songs I've co-written over the years.

Rather an onanistic approach to the process.

To put it another way: Who cares?

Or don't an artist's emotions have anything to do with this forum???

Not the most artful of sentences.

As a literary artist I understand and regularly experience first-hand the role emotion plays in the creative process. As for your defensiveness, I find it to be so much pseudo-intellectual bullshit, if I may borrow a term.

Please enlighten me...

Not possible.