r Lucifer" begins with questions and infe! rences from the speaker that seem encouraging: "Tell me that you're still in love with that Milkmaid/ how's the Lizzies/ how's your Jesus Christ been hanging" (Amos, Boys for Pele). Toriphiles and new listeners alike might concede that picking out who or what "the Lizzies" are is a daunting task. It is clear that they represent something and that their connection is more than likely appropriate, however, the reference is just not available. Who "the Milkmaid" may be remains another reference on the same cryptic plane. We might just be able to expect that the Milkmaid was simply a milkmaid that Father Lucifer was in love with, despite his place in the shadow, and that a fleeting relationship might have ensued. It is interesting to point out that a book that Tori Amos has recommended to her fans entitled Owning Your Own Shadow by Johnson relates an anecdote about a milkmaid of sorts, Marie Antoinette. The queen was bored with life in the most ostentatious palace in the world. One day she decided she wanted to touch something of the earth and ordered barns built on the palace grounds where she would keep some cows. She would be a milkmaid! The best architects of France were employed, the stables were built, and fine milk cows were imported from Switzerland. On the day when everything was ready, the queen prepared to sit on a three-legged stool and begin her career as a milkmaid. Yet at the last moment she found this distasteful and ordered her servants to do the milking. (54) Marie Antoinette, within this context, makes a fine milkmaid to match the character of Father Lucifer. Immediately preceding the Milkmaid reference is a line about Father Lucifer's demeanor: "you never looked so sane" (Amos, Boys for Pele). The statement implies that Father Lucifer should not look sane or even be sane but that he does anyway. Amos' characterization of Father Lucifer becomes more similar to Milton...