Nice to get a chance to review this, and I liked the main comment on this page too. Other's have reviewed this, and I think they missed the point. It's expressed with the things of our world, but is as if it is not ours, but a glance at one that can endure without us. To judge it with our expectations misses the point and leads to disappointment. Instead, I find it turns all those ideas over, the 'abstract' isn't, it's the core of what's real, as are the patterns that are alike in sand, stars, seeds.. This isn't some earthly thing of easy gratification, no wonder some felt the lack of a climax, or some personally assuring message. They'd have done better to watch Doctor Who, and pick up a quick lesson in a sense of wonder from that, because listening to the Dancing Lawn, is like watching timeless forces of nature. One reviewer said there might not be enough in it to last a dozen hearings, but what has? People usually only listen more often than that if they find that what they hear affirms them, personally, else they get bored, or annoyed, usually both. The Dancing Lawn is like a moment in a landscape when things are as they are at some strange moment. We can feel awed, or pleased, or confused, but we will be drawn in, and feel better for having been there to see it, but at no time was it ever there to tell us what we wanted to hear. That makes it better than anything that does. I like it enough to be glad I can go to it any time I like, too.
Crow. (Lostgallifreyan, in various places...)
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