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1: I'll go through the process which lead me to this conclusion.
Going from Part I to II to III to IIII of L'TiA is an easy enough guess, and it provides a nice listening experience with good pacing. It's simply intuitive as it should be. The simiplicity ends here, and from thereon, they truly bring about the feeling of "having your tongue cut out and served with aspic" to the audience, but this change was more out of necessity than intentional design; as they say, "Innovation loves a crisis". You see, L'TiA was always meant to be a "pentalogy", but this series had brought King Crimson so many sales that they had no choice but to stretch it out in a way that explores all of the possible progressions past part IIII so that it doesn't disappoint any fans expectations. NONE of them.
With the next song, an extension of the fourth, they totally break the previous naming convention to make it clear that there's more to come. It has the inspiring title "I Have a Dream". One line in particular came to attention as I was trying to figure out where the series goes from there:
"…the bombing of the World Trade."
When I appreciated the full depth of meaning in this line, it was revealed to me as if by divination: "With this album, time is not linear."– King Crimson had predicted over a year in advance the attaKc on the World Trade Center. From there on, it became easier to see where I should go next with this series which had awkwardly ended singing some crap about AIDS and the Holocaust: Everywhere.
When this realisation came to me, I was trying to come up with any leads from the past, present, or future. I did remember one thing, and that was the time around KC's first reincarnation, where it was very likely that they were going to continue with the name "Discipline". I considered the question: "Where would King Crimson end up if they reformed as Discipline for real and pursued the musical direction they'd established?" and came to the conclusion that I'd have to portray their future as going into several different, distinct directions. Naturally, aside from the beginning, the "Discipline" timeline ends in really, really boring and pretentious stuff.
From there, I hit a stump and had to start doing some research. As Fripp's web log states<1>, the final entry to the series was going to be a song which sounded very similar to "Fracture", which was kind of lame and had a bunch of building up to absolute silence and the realisation that you'd hit the end of the album. Being a genius, I figured out on my own that this song would eventually become "FraKctured" and made its debut to the world through the ProjeKcts stunt when Fripp found the vinyl record sitting upside down on one of his shelves like a CD<2>.
The true ending to the series was Level Five, as geniously deduced by me, and after enough lobbying, the band had to grudgingly agree with me<3>. The chaotic feel and actual listening quality of this traKc perfectly embodied everything FraKctured was not, so I decided to place it as an opposite to it down an alternate "INDISCIPLINE" timeline.