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The band became almost synonymous with audio-visual innovations, and the performances of the album at live shows were spectacular moments of mass-culture although Roger Waters himself spoke out against such mass spectacles. The band's stage performances of the album serve to illustrate the multifaceted and complicated relationship between modern culture and technology.  The album is therefore placed within the context of developments in late 1960s\/early 1970s popular music, with particular focus on the use of a variety of segues between tracks which give the album a multidimensional unity that is lacking in Pink Floyd's later concept albums. Beginning with 'Breathe' and culminating in 'Eclipse', a tonal and motivic coherence unifies the structure of this modern song cycle. 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In the range of works examined here-from Phillis Wheatley’s poetry to Herman Melville’s Israel Potter , from Henry James’s \"The Jolly Corner\" to the Disney Studio’s Dumbo-Reising finds endings that violate all existing theories of closure and narratives that expose the the often unarticulated issues that inspired these texts.  Reising suggests that these \"non-endings\" entirely refocus the narrative structures they appear to conclude, accentuate the narrative stresses and ideological fissures that the texts seem to suppress, and reveal \"shadow narratives\" that trail alongside the dominant story line. He argues that unless the reader notices the ruptures in the closing moments of these works, the social and historical moments in which the narrative and the reader are embedded will be missed. 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