"In the Beginning"

I was thinking about "In the Beginning" this morning, and realized that the alliteration in the line "Keep as cool as you can" holds some significance.  The multiple instances of this phoneme provide a slight sense of degree (similar to how the persistent rhymes in other lines portray an abundance, which I've written about before).  That the phoneme is sustained from word to word also lends a sense of the constancy of "keep."

"In the Beginning"

I'm pretty sure I noticed before that in "In the Beginning," the phrase "our great computer" is spoken more loudly than the preceding and following words, but I realized yester-day that this change in dynamics highlights that exalted status.

"In the Beginning"

This morning, I started transcribing the lyrics from the booklet of On the Threshold of a Dream into Google Documents so that they're easier to reference.  So far, all I've done is "In the Beginning," but in transcribing it, I noticed something:  the insistently repeated rhymes in "I've miles / And miles / Of files / Pretty files..." and "Face piles / And piles / Of trials / With smiles" help provide a sense of abundance in both of these instances.

"In the Beginning"

In "In the Beginning," the line "I think, I think I am, therefore I am, I think" is a slight rephrasing of René Descartes' famous statement "I think, therefore I am."