In the first Coil album, "Scatology", the booklet is filled with odd quotes and cryptic statements. Some of these I've followed up: Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi", all the Pan stuff (in fact this album got me interested in Pan and I used it at my invocation to him some time back), the reference to "The Selfish Gene", etc. But one segment of the booklet puzzles me. Maybe someone here can illuminate me... (hell, you guys helped me out with the Black Sun).
The liner notes to the track "Aqua Regis": The Royal Wee and the Acid Reign. "Rule Brittania- Brittania Waves the Rules".
Now, I know Aqua Regis was important to the Alchemists, but what the hell is a Royal Wee and what do they mean by Acid Reign? And where the hell is that Brittania quote from?
In another album Coil had a track called Aqua Regalia, which I guess is another Alchemy reference. The liner notes for that song say it's about the links between royalty and water: Royal Waters: The Royal Wee (there it is again!): Underwater kingdoms and Europe after the Reign (Reign again?)
What is this link between royalty and water? What does it mean by reign in this example? Underwater kingdoms... Atlantis maybe? Bah, it's driving me crazy! |
