… taken the bait. He’s exploring *East* VWX Town, before he leaves to explore The Diagonal. This is something he had to do. He was afraid of lions, of tigers, of bears (especially, perhaps). Cats. The Dark Man is afraid of Cats.
1st cat.
2nd cat. The Dark Man drives this 2nd to the hotel.
Hucka D.:
The Dark Man remembers death through the cat or because of the cat.
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bb:
Sorry, Hucka D. Got involved in reading this quite excellent article about Scatman Crothers’ part in The Shining.
Hucka D.:
Catman?
bb (ignoring Hucka D.):
He is indeed The Dark Man — The Residents have that right (again) as well. Right as rain. All the movie needed was his (sno-)*cat* as an escape vehicle for Danny and Wendy. That’s all. The character was expendable after he arrived at the hotel in the cat.
Hucka D.:
Then he truly is the Catman.
bb:
I don’t know… maybe. A lot of Shiny Hare seems to be about him. He’s elevated through the synch.
Hucka D.:
We can’t talk much about that[ I’m told].
bb:
I suppose not. But The Dark Man is really the Jack Nicholson character, also named Jack in the film. When Jack *kills* Halloran (Scatman character), then he *becomes* Halloran — killer becomes killed in a type of karmic cycle.
Hucka D.:
Mobius.
bb:
The Shining, with its dark ending scene, closes up or completes or reverses what happens in 2001, Hucka D. Jack is reborn (like Bowman as super baby at end of 2001: A Space Odyssey) but darkly.
Hucka D.:
Yes. Jack is The Dark Man because he kills. The Dark Man is *cut in two*, in two ways. It’s brilliant.
bb:
I didn’t do it.
Hucka D.:
You figured it *out*.
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http://www.lyricskid.us/lyrics/residents-lyrics/the-dark-man-lyrics.html
There were pictures of my own family
In the shadows was someone watching me
He was little more than a silhouette
With a restrained feeling of regret
In one of the pictures, his, his hands are desperately clinging to his face, like maybe it was on fire and he smothered it out with his fingers, but I know, that sounds crazy
http://blingee.com/blingee/view/93422260-scatman-crothers-the-shining
http://subliminalsynchrosphere.blogspot.com/2012/09/kubricks-shining-2001-aso.html
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