Among them, apparently, is Colin Meloy, member of Portland's revered alternative band, The Decemberists.
Mr. MELOY: Well, yeah, that's one of the nicer bits about being in this band.
Mr. MELOY: What I wanted to illustrate was kind of the absurdity of the whole procession and the whole affair.
Mr. MELOY: And then, in another tragic turn, he dies as well.
Mr. MELOY: Eli sells all sorts of random things, sort of walks through the cities, much like Molly Malone from that Irish folk song.
Mr. MELOY: I'm a big fan of Vladimir Nabokov and just his use of raw language and his ability to play words off of each other.
Mr. MELOY: It's basically an exercise in trying to write the biggest song I possibly could involving as many elephants and camels and palanquins and things like that.
Mr. MELOY: It's a beautiful word, lovely three-syllable word.
Mr. MELOY: Just instead of writing the sort of, really, realist kind of stoic, creative non-fiction, I just started using things outside of my experience, entirely outside of my setting in history.
Mr. MELOY: You know, you see heads of state and things like that in centuries bygone riding around in those boxes where there's two people on either side sort of carrying him along.
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