What's especially interesting about it is that the male and female character framed in "A Perfect Day, Elise" (rabbit holes are getting stacked), -the man is making the self same appeal with the self same concept that Bono opens this album with. His repeated verbal appeal in the song (his reply when she tells him to leave), "'It's a perfect day, Elise'" is no different than how Bono frames the opening track on this album, "Love is All We Have Left" by opening the whole album with "Nothing to stop this being the best day ever". The entire concept of this book is captured in the depiction of the perspective he would have been imbued with had he read it: "Now you're at the other end of a telescope, seven billion stars in her eyes, So many stars, so many ways of seeing, Hey this is no time, not to be alive" in the same opening track. The book is about a participatory feedback loop between various lyricists/artists, that is only viewable through the perception of the (female) author (where she identified the participants as stars). If you want a succinct analogy of that search "All the Way to Reno" with no quotes, or "chain of stars", or try "star" in quotes, and "four levels". It's an active analogy through the entire book which might be served with the understanding that it exists that way in an active "feedback loop" (yea, you can search that term for prevalence too). -Or you can get a nice little summary at the bottom of this page under REM's "Reveal". (only one paragraph)