indeed I do know that. and yes, I just googled head+ships, I'm correct.
I don't know about ships. Willem Defoe's character, Bobby Peru, refers to a toilet as the 'head' in Wild at Heart. 'Can I use your head? I don't mean your head head, I mean your head.' Bruce Robinson also wrote and directed Withnail & I, but perhaps you knew that.
duplicate post.
I read The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman recently, by Bruce Robinson, (can't remember if I already mentioned that) it's a funny, endearing, twisted view of a school-boy's life in England, he had a couple of run-ins with the Head, and the toilet for that matter. Isn't the Head another name for toilet on a ship?
Yeah, the principal - the headmaster, or 'the head' for short. The head of masters. A slightly SM sounding authority position that, in fact, used to go hand in hand with corporal punishment, to whit, caning. In another way, it's almost Orwellian: the master of the head; of your head. Of course he could just be master of toilet duties or lord of bong hits.
I assumed a prof, or the principal of the school. the rest of the song isn't as cool.
Actually, I'm sort of flattered by those lyrics now. By the way, do you understand what 'the head' in those Belle & Sebastian lyrics refers to?
okay, I thought it was something along those lines, but I couldn't be sure. the same idea could apply to so many things in life.
Well, it's a bit of an extrapolation, but remember when I said, with regard to professional ambition for poetry, 'As long as I'm writing stuff I like, I feel like I'm winning' and you agreed? Something to do with that. Not that it might not be nice to be able to bring out a book of poems - maybe - but maybe that the idea of having to tout it around (to whit, commodify it) isn't very appealing and sort of interferes with the very personal pleasure of writing it.
"it's probably intended to treat its subject rather acerbically", perhaps you are right, but it wasn't how I saw it, just thought it was rather nifty. 'To the extent that my labour becomes a commodity, I am alienated from it.' I'd be interested to know why that made you think of me.
