The final song on the album, and the end of our journey through time, from "before" to "after" science (I claim no objectivity in my assessment of the album's structure). A lullaby.
The protagonist is now with "Spider," who appears to be a literal spider. Perhaps reincarnated, perhaps perceiving omnisciently the preciousness of all life, we have passed through death (in the previous song) to a state of absolute peace. The glory of a single knit web, normally hated or ignored by humans, is seen for what it is -- the small, the unseen, the forgotten, the details, the imagination, sleep, dreams, rest, peace, drifting, after science -- I hope we can learn from all of these things when we design our next society. Eno seems hopeful; after all, what are humans except another in a long line of "random," quantum Earth mathematics?
The final song on the album, and the end of our journey through time, from "before" to "after" science (I claim no objectivity in my assessment of the album's structure). A lullaby.
The protagonist is now with "Spider," who appears to be a literal spider. Perhaps reincarnated, perhaps perceiving omnisciently the preciousness of all life, we have passed through death (in the previous song) to a state of absolute peace. The glory of a single knit web, normally hated or ignored by humans, is seen for what it is -- the small, the unseen, the forgotten, the details, the imagination, sleep, dreams, rest, peace, drifting, after science -- I hope we can learn from all of these things when we design our next society. Eno seems hopeful; after all, what are humans except another in a long line of "random," quantum Earth mathematics?