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At the end of the rainbow

Synopsis: My personal interpretation of Syd's homecoming Character: Syd Barrett

Hello everyone, I'm writing this fiction as today marks twenty years from Syd's passing. And in my head he didn't die... he simply went back home.

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When he arrived in the earthly world, Syd Barrett had crossed a rainbow, leaving the forest from which he came: an ancient place, where dreams knew no sunset, populated by gnomes in scarlet tunic drinking strawberry and blueberry wine, scarecrows in barley fields conversing with the wind, Siamese cats playing jazz, and storytellers weaving stories from blades of grass.

His earthly life was as brief as the flight of a butterfly; he had walked among men disguised as one of them, carrying a piece of his world with him.

And when the forest claimed its strangest elf, the same rainbow reappeared, bending until it touched his feet. Syd crossed it slowly, a smile on his face and his pockets full of stardust and music, until he disappeared among the trees, where the gnomes toasted in his honour and the pixies chased each other among the mushrooms.

Somewhere, hidden among the willows, the storyteller had resumed the story she had interrupted.

A pipe was heard in the distance as he approached, and then everyone knew the elf had returned home.

There, at the end of the rainbow.

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Pink Floyd Album Cover, 1967                   Echoes in the Void – A dialogue between two friends on Pink Floyd’s debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, (Released on 4th August 1967 by EMI Columbia, recorded at the EMI Studios in London’s Abbey Road,) . Pink Floyd’s first studio album was recoded in the room next to The Beatles, where they were recording…

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