BOC: Imaginos, part 8 - the song order, again

[Joseph Brooks]

In regards to your interpretation...

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.."

JB

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> From: Johnny Firic [mailto:johnnybravo5858 at HOTMAIL.COM]
> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 12:17 PM
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> Subject: Re: BOC: Imaginos, part 8 - the song order, again
>
>
> 8. THE ORDER OF THE REMAINING SONGS (2)
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>
> That didn't put you off? Great!
>
> The order of the remaining songs has, I believe, been
> established. Just to
> refresh your memory, we have:
>
>         6. Astronomy,
>         7. In the presence... ,
>         8. The siege & investiture... , and
>         9. Magna of illusion.
>
> However, in "Astronomy", an important change takes place as Imaginos
> realizes he is "descended from the stars". He becomes aware of his
> supernatural powers, most notably his ability to move forward
> and backward
> through time - which enables him to "place himself on vital
> junction points
> in history", if I remember the quote correctly. All songs
> (except Magna, but
> that's not the issue now) are told from HIS point of view. Since he is
> 'jumping through time', the sixth and seventh song in the cycle, for
> example, don't necessarily happen BEFORE (in 'our',
> historical time) the
> eighth and ninth song. The nasty thing is that this enormous
> change, this
> 'inference' which started it all, happened during
> "Astronomy", not before it
> and not after it, and I am not 100% certain where to draw the
> line. From the
> line "I'm sure to be the lucky one" (which of course happens
> before "the
> inference", it is clear that he did not deem himself above or
> beyond an
> ordinary human life, together with good luck and bad luck, despite his
> mysterious connection with Les Invisibles. The nature of this
> connection was
> probably unclear to him at the time. Pictorially, you could
> say that he
> thought it was a relationship of a deity and its worshipper (or even
> priest), as opposed to direct descendant!
> Anyway, that is why some songs aren't chronologically in tune
> with others.
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