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[xchaos93x]

Does anyone know if the song One Hundred Years is based on the book One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I know Robert based Killing An Arab on The Stranger by Camus, just thinking he might have penned One Hundred Years with said book in mind.

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[bird]

i have never heard that it was based on that book. there was a website that mentioned all of Robert's literary references in songs (Birdmad Girl = "Love in the Asylum"-Dylan Thomas, Lovecats = The Vivisector-Patrick White, The Drowning Man = Gormenghast-Mervyn Peake, etc), but i dont believe that book was on there. i am sure someone on here has the link to the site i am talking about, if so, please respond because i would like to see it again.

i know i have left out a million, most obviously probably Charlotte Sometimes!

eta: oops, this wasnt the page i was refering to, but it does mention some of the influences: Cure literature references.

[xzombiexmoosex]

This page has a lot of those, too:

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Cure-Robert-Smith-429/origin-song-lyrics.htm

[bird]

thank you!

its weird that all of the ones i am finding are leaving out A Foolish Arrangement ("Christabel" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge), which is making me feel like i imagined the whole thing, but since i am finding about 400 other references to it, i guess not! haha.

again, thank you very much for that link!

[xzombiexmoosex]

I did not know that, but having looked up the poem, I like it. So thanks for that. =)

And no problem!

[thedr9wningman]

100 years is about war. Is the Marquez book about war profiteering?

[nadia_domingos]

i dont really know, although like thedr9wningman said, it's about war. but i can try to find*