A Dream Within a Dream

What about the words at the beginning of the song? "For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem, is but a dream within a dream." I know exactly what he's talking about.

I wonder if that's a quote of something Edgar once said, but I'm not sure... I also like that other time in th album, just before the 'Fall of the House of Usher' instrumentals where he starts talking again. That gets even deeper than this, and sometimes unsettling.

That would be pretty cool, to be able to say your thoughts more distinctly than what you came up with. I envy that ability.

Then the song takes up an Chinese/Oriental style, before the Bass riff comes in and everything fades out, then it goes smooth dreamy. One of my favorite things about the Project is how they work music like that. the way the riff keeps going into the next song reminds me of Equinoxe parts 5 through 7, by Jean Michel Jarre, where the background notes continue through all three songs, with slight variances, being the only thing you hear in transition, and finally becoming the lead in Equinoxe 7, if only momentarily.

Back to Parsons, This was the first of their albums i heard, during my Freshman year, and I told my dad that we were studying Poe in Language Arts (the cask of Amantillado, the Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, and the like), and he put on this disc. very good adaptations, and stuck in the head very easily.

Cambo6, it is an edgar quote.

"to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt to language" is what is spoken, but it's a misquote (bad grammar as well)

It should be "to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt language" (note the missing "to")

It's a common error...

To all: This song IS an instrumental . The spoken words you hear by Orson Wells were originally commissioned for this work but were not received in time for the production. Parson/Woolfson kept them, and in 1987 when they remastered "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" for its Compact Disk(CD) release they included them.(yes there was a time before mp3's and CD's)