Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of … - Neil Peart

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My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him. . . . If we look far enough back in the depths of time, the disordered anthill of living beings suddenly, for an informed observer, arranges itself in long files that make their way by various paths towards greater consciousness.

Neil Peart

Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey. ' It is sometimes also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it.

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