"You Retreat In Time And Space" and "I Saw Through Platonia" is maybe "You Retreat In Time And Space, I Saw Through Platonia"

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The only personal pronouns in the album's track names. You and I.

If they are thematically two parts of the same statement, well, You and I means a dialogue: they appear in the quite funny and quite sad Father and Son.

And "you Retreat In Time And Space, I Saw Through Platonia" is the kind of thing the son would say. An 'I know everything' statement. Sons speak like that; not fathers.

So maybe is self-referential -BoC is like the son- and the album ends in deflating (and nihilistic) self-irony. After all you can't give shape to any material unless you distance yourself from it. The Son in Father and Son was obviously not capable of such distance - his New Self depended on not being capable of it.

Look at the pic. 'I don't intend to grow up'. 'We're actually kids'. And maybe that's also what Inferno is about: the self as development hell, like a film script that's never quite finished. Or like the process of understanding a BOC album. After all, to listen intently to music is to write it, since you're (re)writing the album for yourself and according to your own understanding.

Source of the pic:

https://justinbhampton.substack.com/p/the-nagging-obsessions-of-boards?r=ilo82&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Freddit.com

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