And Ne’er the Twain Shall Meet
Dog lovers! Read this! Take it to heart! It’s a very insightful dialogue between a man and a borrowed Labrador retriever about English architecture, Genesis vs. Peter Gabriel and the differences between humans and dogs, pop music and prog rock.
Dogs like prog. There’s the whole dog-prog rhyming thing, obviously. And the changes of tempo and mood—very doglike. We can dance to prog, because generally speaking, we can’t dance at all. And few of us have much of a sense of rhythm.
Which also explains, even though the topic does not specifically come up, that look your canine friends give you when you listen to hip hop.
