Question: I’ve been thinking about “The Count of Tuscany.” One theory takes it all literally: the Count’s brother (and possibly the Count?) are, in fact, cannibals. They appear to have inadvertently become so when they drank the soldier-flavored wine. But I’m not fully clear on why they let the narrator go. Perhaps they only drink the wine, but not actually eat people?

Another read on the story is that the Count tells is explaining to the narrator that the whole story - the cannibalism for sure, but maybe even the soldiers and the wine, the chapel and the saint - is a fable. It’s been repeated so often that he’s asking the narrator to tell the world the truth, that the Count and his brother are not cannibals.

What’s your read on what happens in this song?