“Hucka D., it looks like you’re going to have a blog (!). You’ll be in charge of the last part of what’s in the Baker Blinker Blog, from September 2011 to the end in August 2012. This is the period where hiking in and blogging about Frank and Herman Parks really picked up, and moved the Baker Blinker Blog beyond Second Life. It acts as a bridge to the Frank and Herman Einstein Blog!, started in Sep. 2012. We have that backed up as well now. Things are looking good. What are you going to do with the blog, Hucka?”
Hucka D.:
Protect (!) Bracket Jupiter wants a blog now as well. I think he and Edwardston Resident may go in for one together.
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Hucka, I’ve been studying up on The Shining today — big surprise, right? — and came across the following from the excellent Juli Kearns Idyllopus site. Check it out:
Bartok’s “Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta” connects Danny’s cycling about the floor of room 237 with the subsequent scene of Jack typing. The music began as Danny rolled about the upper floor, reaching a crescendo as Danny finished trying the doorknob, seeing the girls, and then moving on to the cycling xylophone scales as the camera zoomed in on Jack from behind, the music ending when Wendy finished her approach and Jack ripped his paper out of the typewriter.
We had previously heard this music when Wendy and Danny entered the maze, it reaching the crescendo as Jack entered the lobby and slammed the ball one last time against the far wall, the cycling xylophone scales playing as he stood over the maze watching Wendy and Danny at its center.
There’s speculation that Bartok used the Golden Ratio in some of his compositions and that we can see in the xylophone scales the Fibonacci sequence as 1:1:2:3:5:8:5:3:2:1:1.
And then:
My reasoning, however, is that Kubrick saw a link between the Fibonacci sequence and the conch shell and the labyrinth and thus the tie in with Bartok’s composition in which we supposedly hear the Fibonacci sequence. Kubrick certainly associated the music with the maze as it first plays when Wendy and Danny are in the maze.
Classical ideas of beauty are supposed to be found in Golden proportions, for which reason I imagine Wendy says to Danny, at the center of the maze, “Isn’t it beautiful?” The beauty of the maze is lost on the audience as all we see is green shrubbery and benches. What Wendy would have had to be referring to was its meeting a Golden proportion.
Remember that we’ve already connected the Rubi Woods to both Kubrick’s Shining Labyrinth and the Lucas Sequence, a twinned series to the Fibonacci sequence Kearns discusses here.
Hucka D.:
What do you want me to say? I have a blog (!)
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