Ah yes. I finally understand, in Kantian terms, what Robert Fripp meant at the first Crafty Guitarist course at Claymont Court as we were walking out to perform.

“How does an impulse of inexpressible loving benevolence, that wishes to give itself away, enter our world and move directly into our experience? Moving from the noumenal to the phenomenal…”

And then, gathering us together just before we went on stage, he looked around and said:

“Let’s show those pipe biters some swollen meat.”

At last, the noumenal had become phenomenal.