Max's Musings

Soundtrack, Feb 5, Make Believe

For today, I've got a song I bet no one knows. Continuing with the notion of connecting songs to things I've written, this one appears in my story:

STATIC

The Frogs  (GC) Zeb visits a gothic revival mansion #2329628 by Max Griffin 🏳️‍🌈

This story, which is a post-modern commentary on modernity (how's that for lit-babble?), is about a modern-day real estate developer looking over a fin de siècle mansion located at 666 Zeno Lane. It seems the place is haunted, and includes a slipstream passage to 1908 where he hears this song playing. The story is rife with metaphors and symbolism, staring with the address and the title. The latter references fictional frogs croaking away on the house's decayed grounds and Aristophanes because why else have frogs in a story?

I'm not sure the story works as a ghost story or as an extended metaphor, but it was kind of fun to write. For sure I jammed in as many obscure references as I could.

Here's a link to the song, taken from a 1908 recording. It's kind of scratchy.