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* 03 "All Your Tears" ("(repl)")

In the Lisp family of computer programming languages, programs are
built in an immediately responsive series of interactions with the
computer.  These interactions take place through a program called a
"read eval print loop" (REPL).  This pattern of developing a thing by
redoing it over and over, making adjustments on each pass, has an
analog in most creative disciplines.  Robert Fripp made the analogous
musical process famous by playing his guitar through two specially
prepared tape decks, arranged so that sound played about four to ten
seconds ago would play back in the present, along with whatever was
presently being played.  In this way, he could build up sound
textures, melodies, and chords that were otherwise impossible to voice
with two hands on a guitar fretboard.  This fits very well with the
overall Ouroboros Complex theme of a loop of self-creation.

"(repl)" was edited down from a very early mortmain() recording.  "All
Your Tears" is similar.  The title is taken from a famous quatrain
from a translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,

  "The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ,
  Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
  Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
  Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."


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