Phish.net > Charts > Narration Chart: "Rhombus Narration", 1990-02-01

TREY: A vast green field, that stretches for as far as the eye could see. This field is situated somewhere beneath an enormous mountain that stretches up into the distance, and this mountain is someplace in Gamehendge.

But here we are in Gamehendge, in a huge green field stretching out, everywhere that you can see. And at this point in time we’re gonna follow three chosen subjects who have just climbed up the mountain to find the great and knowledgeable Icculus. And they are now climbing up to this vast, green field and they are walking across it, and it is stretching it’s deep green. The sky, high above them. And they look off into the distance, and there they see a rhombus. An enormous glass rhombus that seems to be floating in mid-air off into the distance.

And they walk towards it and it gets bigger as they get closer. It’s a huge rhombus, enormous, a giant - does everybody know what a rhombus is? You all know that, right? It’s a big square that’s tilted like that… Okay, so the rhombus is up in the distance and they’re coming closer, and as they get up they pull long ropes that hang over their shoulders down, and there’s these three, three prong-ed extensions on the end and they swing them around… And they hook up to the rhombus -- throw those things up in the air -- and start to climb up the side

Up the rhombus, up the rhombus… Until the three of them are standing on top of the rhombus looking in all directions. Green sky. And at this point they commence to take part in an ancient ritual where they look up in the sky and they pray to Icculus and they pray to the gods of the night sky and they sing this little chant...