@JohnHoulgate

1 year ago

I really appreciate that you did your homework on this band. I've been a fan of Blue Öyster Cult since I was a teenager back when they were releasing these albums. I recognized from Secret Treaties they were trying to tell a story, but the information was very sketchy. There was a lot gaslighting and plausible deniability on the part of people I knew who liked this band. Then many decades later, I heard the Imaginos album, read the liner notes and it confirmed for me they were indeed telling this story in those songs. The only thing I want to add deals with this part of the song: "The four winds at the Four Winds Bar Two doors locked and windows barred. One door let's to take you in. The other one just mirrors it Hey! Hey! Hey! . . . In Hellish glare and inference The other one's a duplicate In queenly flux eternal light Oh the light that never never warms Oh the light that never warms, never warms, never warms." There are several images that repeatedly show up in Pearlman's corpus. They include but are not limited to dogs, mirrors, doors (especially doors that lock), mirrors, and a woman named Suzie. In this verse we see doors that mirror each other. They let to take you in, but they lock, trapping Suzie and her friend Carrie into an inexorable encounter with Imaginos fully revealed to them as Desdenova, eternal light. The light that never warms informs us that this is a light that's not of this world. It is an extra-terrestrial light that presents Imaginos as the alien he truly is. So your reference to the light that never warms as coming from the moon gets partway there, but I saw it's a light of origins far beyond the Moon. Mirrors are important because they are portals through which Les Invisibles impress upon the minds of humans their wishes leading mankind into diabolical chaos. The liner notes also mention the black stone that worked as a mirror. The notes mention that Queen Elizabeth's occult advisor, John Dee possessed this stone, giving an historical relevance to it. Sandy Pearlman really tied this all together. The song Astronomy represents a major crossroads in the story. This song is so rich, it continues to amaze me after all these years. Thank you for your thorough commentary on this song.

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