No words...should have sent a drum solo...

[bruceb]

Been listening a fair amount to Genesis' The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway lately. (I go on these kicks.) I've also been reading some of the commentary about it, by the band and by others. Two observations.

#1. Regular readers know my vast appreciation and admiration for Peter Gabriel's work. Keep that in mind that I say, wow, Mr. Gabriel comes across

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[cmdr_zoom]

so at the risk of resorting to jargon and/or eating the rest of your evening, it's an Unbuilt Trope?

[bruceb]

Is that a TVTropes kind of thing, the way it sounds? I won't go so far as to say I've never found anything both new ot me and useful to me there, but it doesn't happen much - for various reasons, I'm not the audience.

[cmdr_zoom]

It is. I decided against making it an actual link; I figured you could seek it out there yourself if you were interested, and decide for yourself how much time you might lose there. ;)

my attempt to summarize:

The Unbuilt Trope is often one of the first works that establishes a genre, a trope, etc in its later, generally recognized form. In hindsight, it appears rather "raw" and rough around the edges, and may even go against or play with some of the assumptions and conventions that grow up around the trope later (because those haven't been established yet, but will be by or in reaction to this work, among others). Indeed, later authors may end up taking things in a very different direction... but this is the origin point, the landmark from which they set out.