Absalom and Achitophel advice of the double agent Hushai over the good advice of Achitophel. Achitophel, realising that the rebellion is doomed to failure, goes home and hangs himself. Absalom is killed (against David's explicit commands) after getting caught by his hair in the thick branches of a great oak tree: "His head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on" (NRSV 2 Sam. 18:9). The death of his son, Absalom, causes David enormous personal grief. A second allegory in the poem, beginning on line 425, is the
Desire Caught by the Tail (album) Desire Caught by the Tail (album) Desire Caught by the Tail is the third solo album by Adrian Belew, released in 1986. Unlike its two predecessors "Lone Rhino" and "Twang Bar King" (both of which were albums of art-pop songs with experimental stylings) "Desire Caught By the Tail" is an entirely instrumental and experimental record. It was recorded by Belew on his own, using multitracked treated electric guitar, guitar synthesizer and assorted percussion instruments. "Desire Caught by the Tail" takes its name from the play 'Le Désir attrapé par la queue', written by Pablo Picasso. The album is in part