royal astronomy (and)

i sem to remember mike saying royal astronmy was a refernce to a kurt vonnegut story (possibly a short)

does anyone know which?

this is the only place i can think of to hide.

lol

i dont know

was Carpet Muncher from the same story?

probably not

For some reason I remember an interview where he said it was about the royal astronomer being an expression meaning full of shit. Like an emperor's clothes deal. God, that was forever ago though, so I'm probably wrong.

bambi.... ?

Why didn't I just google "royal astronomy kurt vonnegut" instead of posting this topic

Took me 7 years to come up with that brilliant idea

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The album's title is a reference to an essay by Kurt Vonnegut (collected in Fates Worse Than Death) in which Vonnegut compares commentators on the intellectual and moral decline of society to the Royal Astronomer in The White Deer by James Thurber, who believes that the stars in the night sky are going out one by one, but in fact this is because he is slowly going blind.