Jack looks down on The Overlook’s model of its maze just like Second Lyfe avatars can look down on the labyrinthine Rubi Forest either directly (flying) or using distant vision.
But then the maze model inexplicably enlarges as we see down through Jack’s eyes in the movie, mirroring itself in all viewable directions. This reminds me that the Rubi Woods was supposedly part of the much larger Sylver Forest in Ancient or Pre-Linden times.
Jack is becoming absorbed into the past of the Overlook Hotel. Remember The Maze is also a mirror of The Hotel. The past for us, the reader and caretaker of this blog, is the Sylver Forest. Will we become similarly absorbed, as Jack did at the end of The Shining? The Maze took him away forever and ever and ever. He became just a frozen head in the then *present*…
… but, at the same “time”, a member of “all the best people” in 1921.
“You’ve always been the caretaker.”
Gila 09 represents the two halves of “Dark Man” ending Shiny Hare. “Hucka D., can we speak about that now?”
Hucka D.:
A little. The picture on the easel is part 1 of 2, the picture on the wall of the gallery is part 2 of 2, yes. Jack of The Shining is at the end. Same as the frozen Marty [ McCartney] head, yes. Yes. (pause)
bb:
Thanks for showing up in my blog this morning, Hucka D. We are trying to resurrect the past. Is this a good thing?
Hucka D.:
Yes. (pause) In this case, in your case. A positive 237, a healing 237.
bb:
We track down the road in the easel picture, which then continues in the wall picture. This is just like the long tracking shot ending The Shining, ending with Jack at the photograph. The wall picture I mean. The easel represents Catman entering The Hotel, and then being cut or sacrificed. The ax cut by Jack, essentially cutting Catman in two, is also like the edit cut of “Dark Man”.
Catman is physically a “Dark Man”, but also the Dark Man becomes Jack psychologically because he kills. He *replaces* the physical Dark Man by being a psychological double. Dark is not necessarily bad, although society likes to deem it such. But [psychological] evil dark is obviously kind of bad. Was I speaking your words, Hucka? (pause) Hucka?
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