White to Gray

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/28/the-most-eccentric-conspiracy-theories-on-the-shining-in-room-237.html

The Holocaust

Another metaphorical theme enveloping The Shining is that Kubrick used the film as a means to deal with the Holocaust. Room 237 mentions the reccurring use of the number 42 in the movie—as in the year 1942 when the “Final Solution” was put into place.

However, one of connecting tissues is the reappearance of the figurative eagle in the film. The interviewees in Room 237 allege that the typewriter Jack so fondly uses to type pages and pages of, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” symbolizes the Third Reich’s mechanical methods of killing people and their obsession with list-making. The machine is made by German manufacturer Adler which means “eagle” in the English translation.

White…

… to gray.

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/keys-02/

Between Jack Torrence’s writing session with the White Adler – and his evening writing session with the (now) Grey Adler, Stephen King had sent Jack Torrence down to the Hotel’s Boiler Room. During this trip, in the book, Jack Torrence had discovered the Hotel Scrapbook. This is the large open book that we see on the table next to Jack Torrence’s Grey Adler. Stanley Kubrick famously wrote Jack Torrence’s trip to the Boiler Room out of the film script entirely, despite the lengthy protestations of his co-writer, Diane Johnson – who identified the trip to the Boiler Room as the story’s most critical ‘point of characterization’ in regards to Jack Torrence, because his discovery of the Hotel Scrapbook is what initiates his ‘insanity’, the very insanity that the film is supposed to be all about.

I propose that Stanley Kubrick wrote Jack Torrence’s trip to the Boiler Room out of the script – because he is using the ‘omission’ as a device. A device which shifts the ‘weight of importance’ that was previously assigned to the Hotel Scrapbook – to some other item which can be found in the Boiler Room later in Stanley Kubrick’s film. The changing colour of the typewriter, from White to Grey (during what would have been Jack Torrence’s ‘plot-critical’ trip to the Boiler Room) indicates that there is something very special about the word “Grey” – specifically in relation to the Boiler Room.

Boiler Room: △ White + Gray(son County).

This is the place where the typewriter is neither white nor grey but a mixed up, in-between place.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quedlinburg

During the Nazi regime, the memory of Henry I became a sort of cult, as Heinrich Himmler saw himself as the reincarnation of the “most German of all German” rulers. The collegiate church and castle were to be turned into a shrine for Nazi Germany. The Nazi Party tried to create a new religion. The cathedral was closed from 1938 and during the war. The local crematory was kept busy burning the victims of the Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp. Liberation in 1945 brought back the Protestant bishop and the church bells, and the Nazi style eagle was taken down from the tower. Georg Ay was local party chief from 1931 until the end of the war.

The former collegiate church of Quedlinburg Abbey, now the Lutheran church of St. Servatius, from which the artifacts were taken

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Adler