Misplaced Childhood - Childhood's End
'Childhoods End?'
Childhood's End was an Arthur C. Clarke novel concerning a race of
beings that had grown from its infancy and ascended to a higher lever of
evolution. It was a theme that he was to develop further in his classic
2001, a Space Odyssey. Childhood's End itself served as the
inspiration for the Genesis track Watcher of the Skies from 1972's
seminal Foxtrot.
'Magpie'
A superstition holds that there are various portents depending on the number
of magpies seen at any one time. A common version is below, but there are
many differing versions around.
- One for Sorrow
- Two for Joy
- Three for marriage
- Four for a boy (etc).
You will notice how many ever appear on a Marillion cover.
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