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Points: 27802 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2005 at 17:06
Originally posted by bluetailfly bluetailfly wrote:

Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

No...it's set in a fictional setting or world.A totalitarian/police-state type setting(I always assumed)

And I also would assume that the "motor law" bans the use of the pollution-causing internal combustion engine,and people only use air-cars.So what the protagonist in the story is doing is basically a crime.

Wow, I don't quite pick up those queues. I thought it was a straightforward biographical nostalgic lyric about Peart's childhood.

I like your take on it though...

Well...the police state thing is something I always had in my head,that might be really off the mark.

But where in Peart's childhood would there be a "gleaming alloy Air-Car"?


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Points: 1383 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2005 at 17:03
Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

No...it's set in a fictional setting or world.A totalitarian/police-state type setting(I always assumed)

And I also would assume that the "motor law" bans the use of the pollution-causing internal combustion engine,and people only use air-cars.So what the protagonist in the story is doing is basically a crime.

Wow, I don't quite pick up those queues. I thought it was a straightforward biographical nostalgic lyric about Peart's childhood.

I like your take on it though...

"The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle."
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Points: 421 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2005 at 17:02
It's a sci-fi song.  The "motor law" is something about not being allowed to drive cars in the future.  Great song, but thematically it's a re-write of 2112. 
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No...it's set in a fictional setting or world.A totalitarian/police-state type setting(I always assumed)

And I also would assume that the "motor law" bans the use of the pollution-causing internal combustion engine,and people only use air-cars.So what the protagonist in the story is doing is basically a crime.


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Points: 1383 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2005 at 16:50

I am currently listening to Rush's Moving Pictures and Geddy Lee has just sung the line "...before the motor law." What is he referring to? Is it a Canadian thing?

Or is this kind of knowledge on a "need to know" basis only?  

P.S. This remastered version sounds astounding: the guitar solo on "Limelight" is a transcendent experience.



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"The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle."
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