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| − | * A '''monastic / contemplative retreat''' — the Catholic, Orthodox and Buddhist practice of withdrawing from the world for a period of intensified prayer or meditation. Time and space are ''both'' abandoned: the retreatant steps out of the flow of duration into a cell, a bardo, a hermitage.
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| − | * Pairs with "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]" and "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" as the album's trio of time-transcendence titles — together they narrate a movement from ordinary time, through retreat, to beatific vision.
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| − | * Also reads plainly as BoC's own description: the band's famous withdrawal into the rural [[Pentland Hills]] studio [[Hexagon Sun]], their 13-year silence between ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' and ''[[Inferno]]''.
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| | == Samples / Lyrics == | | == Samples / Lyrics == |