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"The Word Becomes Flesh" is the tenth track on Boards of Canada's fifth studio album, Inferno.

Comments

• The track title is a direct biblical reference to verse 1:14 of the book of John; "The Word became Flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the on and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth."

Samples / Lyrics

The source of the speech is sampled from Introduction to Development,^[1] a 1983 educational film by Vuke, George J. Using time-lapse, close-up photography, and illustrations, this work documents the developmental processes of an amphibian and a bird, covering stages from the fertilized egg to the formation of critical anatomical structures like the nervous system, gut, circulatory system, and heart.

The head of the embryo grows forward and the gut elongates rearward
The neural folds meet in the brain region, but fuse
At this stage, four pairs of somites, blocks of mesodermal tissue, have formed
As the head of the embryo grows forward
The head fold further undercuts its anterior end
The neural folds fuse to form new sets
Anterior end develops into a three-part brain
Early structures of the eye are now prominent
Meanwhile
The embryo develops in an equally exciting manner
In its later stage, a small embryo is already visible
As a light-colored disk
Soon, blood vessels appear outside the embryo
The heart develops and begins to beat
The pattern of blood vessels over the egg expands
Supplying the embryo with food and oxygen and removing waste
As the embryo grows, the brain, eyes, and other structures develop
Soon, a vigorously beating heart is pumping blood throughout the complex embryo, which is rapidly developing into a mature organism
The blastoderm, the area pellucida is translucent because it is over a liquid
And the white of the egg
Vessels over the yolk expand
Some of the albumen becomes thickened and twisted as the egg passes down the oviduct
These rope-like strands, called the chalazae, help to hold the cell in position
The blastoderm at this stage consists of many cells produced by repeated cell division
While the egg is still within the organism

Trivia

• The track was used in the end credits of Backrooms by Kane Parsons, a film based on the web series and creepypasta of the same name.
  • Notably, Inferno and the film were released on the same day, May 29th, 2026. How A24 received advanced access to the track is unknown.

Videos

A video breaking down roughly the parts with the sample:

Audio

External links

References

1. ↑ https://archive.org/details/introductiontodevelopment