In class today, we discussed a line from Bruce Springsteen's song "Candy's Room" (on "Darkness on the Edge of Town", 1978): "In the darkness there’ll be hidden worlds that shine." Sarfaz Manzoor quotes it in his memoir "Greetings from Bury Park" (2007): "[...] after my father died that one line felt like a lifeline thrown to a drowning man." He writes it on a piece of paper: "I fixed it to my bedroom wall [...]. I stared at those words as if they might hold the secret to the universe." This led us to discuss how lines from songs, poems, or other texts can come to seem like keys to meaning. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 23 April 2025)