Glory285 wrote:"it was a large room full of people, all kinds, and they had all arrived on the same date, and at more or less the same time, and they were all free, and they were all asking themselves the same question, what is behind that curtain?"
I decided to post the transcript, in case it was needed.
For some reason it sounds quite familiar, like a book i've read recently...?
it sounded familiar to me as well.
EDIT: This is all I could find on this when I googled it:
Born, Never Asked
Child: "I never asked to be born!"
Parent: "GO TO YOUR ROOM!"
Charlie Campos
These lyrics make no sense to me, but I think the music is haunting and beautiful. JimDavies
'Born Never Asked' Like the 'film' in Big Science, the theatre is like a procession of images of our own lives viewed from a distance by our consciousness. The theatre here is also a vessel for our consciouness like the plane. Here it appears to be a collective consciousness. We are all wondering what life holds in store for us, what the play is going to be, 'what is behind the curtain'. Curtain up at the theatre is like a birth. The play starts, and the actors appear to be autonomous but are really acting out a script, almost as it were on 'autopilot'. Compare with 'From the Air': there appears to be a pilot, but there isn't. You just have to 'jump out of the plane'. The play is like the memory in advance in Big Science. It's already been remembered/memorized but we (the audience) have yet to experience it (cf. 'this is the time. And this is the record of the time')
geraint@hades.business.co.uk (Geraint Jennings)
It was a large room. Full of people. All kinds.
And they had all arrived at the same buidling
at more or less the same time.
It has been pointed out to me, and I have to agree, that this is the maternity ward - the big room where they put all the newborns so that the new parents can watch them through the glass window. Brian Raiter
brianr@connectsoft.com
And they were all free. And they were all
asking themselves the same question:
What is behind that curtain?
Remember that there's that big glass window in the maternity ward, and it's through that window that parents see their child for (nearly) the first time? But, remember that they have very limited visiting hoursat most of these maternity wards, and when they're not having visiting hours, they pull across a curtain over the window. In reality, their connection to this world-- the only thing that keeps them from being completely individual (free) beings.
slacy@well.com (Steve)
and the answer is - Laurie Anderson, about to begin the show.
(Maternity ward? Sheesh!) -- David Hodson --
davidh@kiss.com.au
You were born. And so you're free. So happy birthday.
CITATION:
http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~jimmyd ... cs/bs.html