Man

“Isn’t No. 9 the story about you the Tiler, baker b.?”

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Hucka D.:

That was Bob. Sorry, Chuck. (pause) Sorry, CTA. Again. You didn’t answer. baker b.?

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CTA:

We don’t know where he went. It’s like he turned invisible.

Hucka D.:

Imaginary?

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bb:

Hi.

Hucka D.:

Hey. (pause) Where you been?

bb:

Studying that Man Square below a bit. Have any comments?

Hucka D.:

Man, you had us worried.

bb:

Stop it.

Hucka D.:

Okay. How was your day?

bb:

Pretty good. Co-worker and I are getting along again. Momentary lapse of reason.

CTA:

Wish you were here.

Chuck:

Umma G. Umma.

bb:

Thanks again people.

Hucka D.:

But you ask about Man. You are the Tiler. You become one with him in Number 9. You turn Imaginary. You go through Apeman to Tin S. Man to Superman to Imaginary Man. Apeman is in the past, Superman the future. Tin S. Man is present; Imaginary Man is present.

bb:

I’ve lost contact with Tin S. Man.

Hucka D.:

*One* Tin S. Man. There are others.

bb:

And this Tin S. Man is also Imaginary Man, since I don’t know his identity (still) even though he knows mine, if he chooses to really think hard and remember (smile).

Hucka D.:

That was a set up flaw. You had to give up rainbowology, but now you have Number 9 and know more about Lisa the Vegetarian — her first true love.

Future. Are there others?

bb:

I’m going to return to Green Oz Creek this weekend, Hucka D. Take some better pictures in lighter situations.

Hucka D.:

Lighter sunlight you mean. Not lighter like float away lighter.

bb:

Right.

Hucka D.:

Skillet the Squirrel is Number 2 to Mouse’s Number 1. Baker Bloch and Baker Blinker. You. You must be Tin S. Man (as well), along with Ray Davies of The Kniks. 4 in 1. Foreign One. You see? 4 Men.

bb:

Maybe. Yeah.

Hucka D.:

When The Kinks become The Kniks, then you have Number 0 and Number 9 together. 4 Men.

bb:

Oh Hucka… check out what my neighbor created (speaking of 4 people). She’s a funny one.

Hucka D.:

Everything has meaning in little VWX Town. Good work.

bb:

It’s a special place. But I’m (still) gonna destroy it. Soon.

Hucka D.:

Special place. Special destruction.

CTA:

I haven’t even been to a town meeting!

bb:

Hi CTA. Northside representative, I suppose.

CTA:

Born and raised there (!)

bb:

Do you know Lisa the Vegetarian?

CTA:

If she attends I must attend.

bb:

Hmmm.

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Hucka D.:

Don’t you think the 4 members of The Kniks represent undifferentiated–ness. Prebirth, before separation of 4 tile colors. Then Number 9 is birth of abstraction. The 4 Men separated into their 4 Corners.

bb:

Tin S. Man must have known of this 4 in 1, this Foreign One.

Hucka D.:

He referred to it/him plainly and simply as Number 9. Plain and simple.

bb:

So Tin S. Man would stroll into his workplace at Tinsity from his castle and start jabbering about his very good friend Number Nine who he had seen the night before.

Hucka D.:

Precisely.

bb:

No one would meet Number Nine. No one knew who it was.

Hucka D.:

It was an abstraction.

bb:

He and Number 9 would talk about Skillet Swamp. They remember the Swamp before Tin S. Man extended an Olive Branch. They remembered the bad to the bone Swamp. Monster. Travis/Randy.

Hucka D.:

So there.

bb:

Sorry (once more). I was daydreaming.

Hucka D.:

About your Co-worker. You’ll get along. Pink Floyd.

bb:

Back to Number 9 (though). There was discussion (in the office) behind boss Tin S. Man’s back about Number 9 being imaginary and not existing.

Hucka D.:

Which it didn’t, of course. But it did. Does.

bb:

I wonder where (Wallace’s) Wallace is in all this? But to back up, Number 9 is obviously a lot about Tin S. Man and his Tinsity. Tin S. Man, as the 11th (LINK), is a direct continuation of Dark Side of the Rainbow’s 10. Tin.

Hucka D.:

Yes. Very important.

bb:

Dark Side of the Rainbow ends in 10 or Tin — number or metal I mean.

Hucka D.:

Yes, I can read it (what you’re saying).

bb:

Tin S. Man must control Dark Side of the Rainbow, then. Like a beehive.*

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dark-Side-of-the-Rainbow-Live/121531641233064

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* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/trivia

A scene was filmed in which the Tin Man was turned into a “human beehive” by the Wicked Witch; after he crushes a bee, the Tin Man cries and rusts his jaw shut, then has to be oiled by Dorothy to get his jaw working again. This scene was cut and so the scene of Dorothy and her companions that comes after where the “beehive” scene had to be flipped to match their continuity in the earlier scene, causing them to appear blurred slightly.