Comus - Song To Comus This track is well-known to be their manifesto and the masterpiece within the masterpiece that is "First Utterance." Beyond the legend (which is very likely true) that the piece was composed by a Wootton on an acid trip, embodying the true essence of the Greco-Miltonian Comus, what I find noteworthy is the beautifully phonetic work of the lyrics, with the word choices designed to convey the guttural sound of the singing and the bestial, grotesque nature of the creature, like that Glare glare glare of the nasty-looking Comus, which is fundamentally a guttural sound, all G glerglergler that seems like a regurgitation, and it, blasphemously, reminds me of Dante's Cerberus who "barks like a dog." Glerglergler
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