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"I had fantasies over this letter," he admits. "I realized that I’d completely shut myself off from life, but I was still aware of Eros inside me. I hadn’t eliminated that part of me at all. I wasn’t a monk. I was just a perverted hermit." | "I had fantasies over this letter," he admits. "I realized that I’d completely shut myself off from life, but I was still aware of Eros inside me. I hadn’t eliminated that part of me at all. I wasn’t a monk. I was just a perverted hermit." | ||
Cuomo, however, had the inspiration for the record. Taking the theme from Puccini’s opera ''[[Madame Butterfly]]'' | Cuomo, however, had the inspiration for the record. Taking the theme from Puccini’s opera ''[[Madame Butterfly]]''{{sic}}, Cuomo turned Pinkerton, a Navy sailor in the opera, into a rock star who sleeps with women from port to port. | ||
"El Scorcho" soon followed. The song stemmed from a similar sense of frustration. Despite his success in a pop group, Cuomo couldn’t talk to a woman in his English class. The song’s key line sums up Cuomo’s emotional state: "How stupid is it/I can’t talk about it/I gotta sing about it/and make a record of my heart." | "El Scorcho" soon followed. The song stemmed from a similar sense of frustration. Despite his success in a pop group, Cuomo couldn’t talk to a woman in his English class. The song’s key line sums up Cuomo’s emotional state: "How stupid is it/I can’t talk about it/I gotta sing about it/and make a record of my heart." | ||