Tull is the “l”, the “t”, the “e”, and then not the “i” but the *”y”*. It is Tyle, not TILE. But still: close! And as Tull is Tyle not TILE, then we have SID not Syd (Barrett) to balance. This is not Syd’s 1st Oz, but SID’s 1st Oz. The link is Walt SIDney. More soon on that, perhaps.
SID’s 1st Oz regions and their tiles, with Tull tiles highlighted in an appropriate TILE color:
T (Kansas; 7): f g h i j k l
E (Oz; 8): m n o p q r s t
L (Nome King; 6>7): u v w x y z a
I (Return; 5>4): b c d e
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8:30pm:
I’ve been getting complaints from readers a reader that I’m just wandering in this series and getting nowhere in particular and becoming more and more diffuse and just not explaining myself well and so on and so forth. What’s rainbowology got to do with this and that and the other thing? they query. Well, I think I’m getting to that. Remember we’re in the “T” of SID’s 1st Oz, which can be seen as a complete TILE. Macro-letters I’m talking about here( once more). This is the beginning macro-letter of SID, composed of seven separate tiles each making a one-to-one match between audio and video pieces. I call this “region” of SID — one of 4 again — the Kansas region, because it all basically takes place in Kansas except for the very end where we have Dorothy arriving in the Deadly Desert surrounding Oz, accompanied by the first part of Jethro Tull’s A Passion Play album from 1973. Yes, the same year as Dark Side of the Moon. Yes, if you listen to the album those are very similar opening heartbeats to Dark Side. No, I don’t think A Passion Play is an homage to a fellow 1973 album. Actually they were on the Billboard charts at the same time (no. 1 and no. 3 here)…
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10:30pm
I’m going to open up the phone lines for a bit. Hold on…
Continuous Blog Reader:
So are you saying Dark Side of the Moon and A Passion Play are clones?
bb:
In a way. Both begin and end with heartbeats, and both wax and wane in and out of the album ta boot.
CBR:
Ta boot?
bb:
Yeah.
CBR:
I came to your blog promised that it was about a different angle into Second Life and I get all this Rainbowology crap that doesn’t make any sense. Can you explain? Really, I think we, the Reader, need one.
bb:
The Frank and Herman, Einstein! Blog is suppose to be about 2 local parks at the root of it, and mainly self spun mythologies surrounding them.
CBR:
Where are the parks?
bb:
Where I live.
CBR:
Where’s that?
bb:
Blue Mountain.
CBR:
I’ve looked that up and I found one in Arkansas. Is that the one? It’s near some mountains.
bb:
No. It doesn’t matter where Blue Mountain is. It’s in the mountains. It has a college. It has the *parks*. That’s all you need to know.
CBR:
What if I want to go to these parks and retrace your steps to better grok what you’re on about here in this here blog?
bb:
I can do that privately if you wish. If I know you a bit.
CBR:
Do you know me well enough?
bb:
No.
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Let’s shift to caller #2 about 30 minutes later. This person called himself Wheeler. I’ll attempt to edit out the boring parts…
Wheeler:
That’s fascinating about SID’s 1st Oz having so strong a center, unlike Dark Side of the Rainbow. So the “T” is the Kansas — region I think you called it…
bb:
Yes.
Wheeler:
And that’s the same as the Kansas 1/2 of Dark Side of the Rainbow, or the equivalent. They’re about the same length. All you’re getting at in these Rainbowology posts is that equation. Dorothy starts in Kansas in Dark Side of the Rainbow and then enters Oz in the second half. This is the same as the 2 sides of Dark Side of the Moon. That’s easy. Then in SID’s 1st Oz, the direct followup as it were…
bb:
… as it is…
Wheeler:
… You have Dorothy in Kansas again to begin and then heading to Oz about 20-25 minutes in, but this is only the *one-fourth* point of SID’s 1st Oz, as opposed to the one-half point.
bb:
Yes. You’ve caught on suspiciously well.
Wheeler:
Thank you.
bb:
Are you actually a Wheeler? An Oz Wheeler?
Wheeler:
You bet!
bb:
I suspect you may be Hucka D.
Wheeler:
Nah. So to continue… SID of course does have a halfway point, but its the halfway point in the related movie and not the album. The Return to Oz movie. Were you suppose to say that?
bb:
Er…
Wheeler:
And this center, this halfway point, is not a point like in Dark Side of the Rainbow but more spread out. There’s a central story of Return to Oz that matches the central one of A Passion Play here. You must begin at the top with A Passion Play and its direct relation to Dark Side of the Moon. Never forget that.
bb:
I’ll never forget that.
Wheeler:
A Passion Play has 4 tiles in SID’s 1st Oz, correct? I know it to be so.
bb:
Hucka?
Sunklands 