Part I:
Definitions of the Songs on the album Bookends, by Simon & Garfunkel

1 - Bookends Theme - formatting: this is an album of music type stuff.

2 - Save The Life Of My Child - everything is apart of society, there is no such thing as a private act, everything is a spectacle, any act is susceptible to the interests of an audience.

3 - America - The answer is the question.

4 - Overs - threshold, the liminal space before the end, confusion between past and present: not sure if the interaction at hand has actually happened.

5 - Voices Of Old People - this is not a song; explanation of motive and gives perspective of the act of following designated things, but most people spend their whole lives trying to understand death, when you can't, because it doesn't exist.

6 - Old Friends - note: the writers of this song were not 60 years old when it was written - raises the questions 'where does the song end' and 'where does the object end' disjunction between experience and conceptualization of parts of things, that of 'of'; experience of time between two points - the ends.

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