Not as big a hiking day as some of the others in this vacation period, but returned to Byng as usual. Some renames first (prelim): the stretch from Lion’s Roar to 6 Mile Hill or Impasse Tree along Byng Creek (or just Byng) is now called Kansas. The nearby flat platform on the ridge that holds the secrets of the broken bottle is named Kentucky for now. This partially comes from Hucka D. saying he wanted to fly away to Kentucky and visit his dad (when, earlier, we were talking about the problems assoc. with Tinsity at that time), where he was happy. A “bee’s line” is also found on this ridge directly connected with the broken bottle. In the post just below, I attempt to parallel the process and events surrounding this bee’s line with E.A. Poe’s famous story “The Gold Bug”, perhaps the one he made the most money off of in his lifetime. I attempted to take some string and trace the whole of this line, but I didn’t have nearly enough to complete the task as it turned out — must return very soon and unroll a new, longer line, then. Also retrieve the pieces of the bottle itself, perhaps.
Hucka D.:
The bottle contained a message, which you didn’t find. Cryptogram, just like in Poe’s story. The flat platform you mention is indeed my Kentucky with its bee’s line. This is what I wanted you to find. Return. There’s more to it.
bb:
Hucka D., the events or processes involved in finding this line on Kentucky seem to reverse, in part, those of Poe’s story.
Hucka D. (repeating):
The message was in the bottle, which had to be broken in order to retrieve. Who retrieved?
bb:
Obviously not me. What was on the message?
Hucka D.:
The location of a treasure, just like in Poe’s story.
bb:
Is it connected to the hole being dug by Tin S. Man in Tinsity, now part of the 3333 protectorate according to you?
Hucka D.:
Yes. The process was split in two along those lines. The birth of Cpt. James T. Kirk. In Tinsity. 2233. You.
bb:
So… let’s see… the revelation of the Gold Bug parallels in Kentucky caused my rebirth in Tinsity as Kirk?
Hucka D.:
Yes. You are an infant, just as the Gold Bug-Kentucky parallels are just beginning. It’s a party.
bb:
But obviously this is not a physical treasure. A psychological treasure, then. Like alchemy.
Hucka D.:
You have more.
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