Fracture of Starless

I can find two reasons why you posted this message:

Reason 1. You want to convert likers into not liking them.

Reason 2. You want someone to convert you.

I'm curious to know how you'd convert any of us, or how any of us would convert you, and there's no irony, nor any sarcasm. I'm just curious.

Starless feels to me like the landing/closing track, of the 72-74 trilogy, overall deflating compared to Providence. I find it more coherently constructed than Fracture. 

But I prefer Fracture, great track at least until the end of "moto perpetuo" (my fav Fripp accomplishment ever, enchanting illusion of two guitar playing very neatly while it's only one, alternating dreamy arpeggios to groovy sequences, all that in a crescendo, great tension is built, and very, er, ...elegantly ?). 

After that central part (I guess Fripp owes much of his reputation to that one), I find the mere getting back to the first fortissimo theme a bit cheap (we could consider that keeping the same fingerings in arpeggio chord sequences in the central part would also be a cheap choice, but at least it doesn't feel so to my ears..). Maybe that second fortissimo should just have been decorated with agile guitar lines... Same with the following  > end. Same problem, but bigger, with LTIA I, with that chorded soup after the super I'm-dangerous-and-you-can't-catch-me solo.