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strange? 03

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http://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/shining_saturday.htm

Coincidentally, as Wendy crosses over the circle where Dick is to die, an oval flaw appears in the film stock on the wall to the left, white enclosing a tan field. I saw this because I paused the film to get a shot that showed the television was on but we’re unable to see what is playing, and for the brief period of time it is shown whatever is on the screen appears static and isn’t moving.

Juli Kearns is speaking of the 2nd still below, but in the frame before this we have a larger oval flaw appearing on the floor below and to the right of the strolling Wendy. Thought I’d include this here. I don’t have anything else to add to Kearns’ observations at this time except to reiterate that these flaws come just before the scene with the last “sha” sound of the movie (Wendy contacting the forest service via radio) and also, as Kearns noticed, right at the spot where Jack heard the *first* sha sound near the beginning of the movie, and also where he axed Halloran to death toward the end. I’m reminded of Halloran’s own words when talking to Danny about the shining gift:

Well, you know, Doc, when something happens, it can leave a trace of itself behind. Say like, if someone burns toast. Well, maybe things that happen leave other kinds of traces behind. Not things that anyone can notice, but things that people who “shine” can see. Just like they can see things that haven’t happened yet. Well, sometimes they can see things that happened a long time ago. I think a lot of things happened right here in this particular hotel over the years … and not all of ’em was good.

“Things that haven’t happened yet” — certainly prophetic words coming from Halloran here in combo with the burnt toast analogy. Actually I do have something to add about the larger and earlier of the 2 oval flaws in question. It seems to quite suspiciously align with a red and black band of the floor design, specifically 2 right angle triangles on either side. I think there’s a strong possibility that mad genius Kubrick purposely constructed this as one of those “burnt toast” spirits.

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I looked through the whole movie for similar anomalies. Here are 2 of the more interesting ones, from the shot where Wendy first discovers that Jack has only been typing the sentence “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” over and over and over again instead of actually writing something coherent for his book. I’ve already called into question whether these are actual pages or instead symbolic stand-ins for what is perhaps turning out to be a cheesy (and thus similarly worthless) horror story. What I like about the first anomaly, then, is that the white speck or flaw appears above a red triangle element of the ceiling design (to the left and above Wendy’s head), reminding me of the all illuminating Eye of Providence within or atop a triangle/pyramid, such as appears on the back of our dollar bill.

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Certainly Wendy is being illuminated here as well, with the realization that her husband is truly, stark raving mad (!) In the same shot we have a more conspicuous *red* colored flaw on the bannisters to her right in the picture, about 6 seconds after the one described above flashing atop a *red* triangle.

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*Interesting*. I’ve just learned through this wikipedia article on the subject that the Eye of Providence also appears on the Seal of Colorado. Kubrick obviously used the Colorado state flag as a leaping off point for some of his symbols, like Danny’s yellow ball mirroring the flag’s central yellow (solar) circle. Could he be doing similar things with the state’s seal here?

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Note that the seal depicts a bound *axe* and wooden rods just below the all seeing eye, woven together with a red, white and blue ribbon in a design known as the Roman farces.

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New Tree

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In The Shining film, we have none of this discussed, although the scrapbook is seen open beside Jack several times while he’s writing. We have so much of the backstory explained in this deleted scene. And it’s probably for that very reason Kubrick decided to leave it out of the movie, to blur fact and fiction further and to heighten the mystery and intrigue. Jack the story writer and Jack the character in the story (and Jack the actor!) all get mashed together into a composite figure. And the only thing this composite character in the movie writes is that one sentence again and again. “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” Is Kubrick, for instance, saying that Jack’s story will turn out to be as worthless as this insane drivel? I believe we have to think about Stephen King’s source novel for the movie as well. Several researchers have laid out convincing arguments that Kubrick reversed much of King’s plot, or turned it on its head (much to the chagrin of King, they add). Let’s return to the horse’s mouth and see what Kubrick has to say about the source novel:

With “The Shining,” the problem was to extract the essential plot and to re-invent the sections of the story that were weak. The characters needed to be developed a bit differently than they were in the novel. It is in the pruning down phase that the undoing of great novels usually occurs because so much of what is good about them has to do with the fineness of the writing, the insight of the author and often the density of the story. But The Shining was a different matter. Its virtues lay almost entirely in the plot, and it didn’t prove to be very much of a problem to adapt it into the screenplay form.

So Kubrick’s opinion of the source novel is that it contains a solid plot but is not great fiction per se. And this plot provided the basis for the director’s re-invention, turning its weaknesses into strengths within the movie. Or that was the idea. So colors were re-invented and inverted, for example. In the movie we have Jack driving a yellow Volkswagen Beetle and playing with a yellow ball in the Colorado Lounge while attempting to think of ideas for his story. In King’s novel, both of these were red. Inversely, the novel’s yellow snowmobile (or sno-cat) becomes red in the film. As Danny and Wendy arrive at the Overlook in the yellow VW near the film’s beginning, they drive away from it at the end in this red snowmobile. Red and yellow have switched places as Alpha and Omega.

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Jack waving goodbye.

And what of the crushed *red* Volkswagen in the film, seen by Halloran as he returns to the snow bound Overlook Hotel from hot, sunny Florida? Here’s what blogger Jonny53 has to say:

http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2008/06/crushed-red-vw.html

Turned on its head indeed!

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New Too

Jack Torrance: I like you, Lloyd. I always liked you. You were always the best of them. Best goddamned bartender from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine. Or Portland, Oregon, for that matter.

Been looking through this…

http://www.collativelearning.com/mybb_1401/Upload/showthread.php?tid=566

… and came across this.

http://www.theoverlookhotel.com/post/40960004135/a-deleted-scene-from-the-screenplay-for-the

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Repetition.

If you know The Shining movie, you certainly remember when Wendy found what Jack had been merrily typing for days. Just one line over and over and over: “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” Turns out by that time the scrapbook hadn’t inspired Jack to writing significant fiction but might have instead driven him over the edge. But is this what it seems in the movie? There’s significant evidence that parts of the movie are actually externalized versions of the novel he is writing based on this scrapbook. A prime example is mentioned in Kearns’ page on the Tuesday section of the movie.

http://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/shining_tuesday.htm

What clued me in personally about a story within a story going on here is that Wendy, when approaching Jack finally hard at work on his story, typing madly away in the cavernous Colorado Lounge of the hotel, says hello to him *twice.* Here’s the dialog, culled from Kearns’ site (thanks once again Juli!):

WENDY: Hi, hon. How’s it going?

Jack rips his page out of the now gray typewriter.

JACK: Fine.

She leans in and gives him a kiss.

WENDY: Get a lot written today?

195 MCU Jack from Wendy’s side. (43:56)

JACK (stiffly): Yes.

196 CU Wendy. (44:00)

Now we view Wendy.

WENDY (stiffly): Hey. The weather forecast said it’s going to snow tonight.

After the second greeting, Jack’s demeanor changes. He becomes more sullen, and asks her not to disturb him again while he’s working. What’s more, a *chair* has obviously disappeared from the wall behind him, seen clearly in the shot of Jack just prior to this. Again, as with Danny’s tiger poster discussed in “strange? 02” (LINK) and many, many more examples throughout The Shining, this disappearance is *not* a continuity error, but purposely inserted into the film by Kubrick at this particular juncture for a specific purpose. There appears to be 2 Jacks here (and 2 Wendys), the real Jack typing the story in the Colorado Lounge, and the Jack *within the story*, also typing, and also more irritated by Wendy’s intrusion. I would venture that the Jack who typed “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” over and over is the fictional one within the story. The real Jack is merely typing the story itself. But since the real Jack is also in a *fictional* movie… well, we’ve returned to the idea of nested dolls, and which reality is real.

And overlayed on top of this is the bizarre twist that actors named Jack (Nicholson) and Danny (Lloyd) play the Jack and Danny characters in the movie, with these fictional names originating in Stephen King’s source book and otherwise unconnected to the real names. Kubrick himself mentioned this coincidence (synchronicity, really) in an interview with Michel Ciment when speaking about the music of the film:

… most of the music in the film came from the Polish composer Krystof Penderecki. One work titled Jakob’s Dream was used in the scene when Jack wakes up from his nightmare, a strange coincidence. Actually there were a number of other coincidences, particularly with names. The character that Jack Nicholson plays is called Jack in the novel. His son is called Danny in the novel and is played by Danny Lloyd. The ghost bartender in the book is called Lloyd.

Here we return Lloyd the bartender, then.

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“What will it be?”

I’ve seen several Shining researchers mention the additional coincidence that this bartender is serving Jack a *Jack Daniels* drink, comparing it to the union of father (Jack) and son (Danny, or Daniel). Here we might also be talking about an incestuous relationship between the two; there’s actually a considerable body of evidence for this, although the basic theory is rejected by Kearns at least. But there’s also such evidence as Jack talking about his relationship with Danny while drinking Jack Daniels in front of Lloyd, saying things like…

I never laid a hand on him, goddamn it. I didn’t. I wouldn’t touch one hair on his little goddamn little head. I love the little son of a bitch. I’d do anything for him, any fucking thing for him.

Back to the scrapbooks and The Shining’s deleted scene….

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Ideas

Sharieland’s Sunklands and its Gaping Mouth Rock, etc. is now directly attached to The Shining. How could this be? Palmistry, The Devil tarot card, and the picture at the end of The Shining are all linked through Jack’s band aid, which becomes my band aid. It heals a poisoning, like lead poisoning, like poison ivy poisoning, but a wound of the heart (or head?) [line]. The pencil warned me (jabbing) what was just around the corner (co-worker split). I was so happy, having created my Sharieland photos. Then: shock.

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Result was getting a student (wonderful!), and co-worker moving to a different location, in essence. Also probably me retaining my office. So what’s to complain about?? Only the great unknown.

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Healing.

Alignments are being made in this game of Omega Point considerations. Alpha (Oz) is seen to be corrupted by Omega (Shining). The whole thing must be lifted up and purified.

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The Omega Wall.

We continue…

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strange? 02

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In “strange? 01”, we examined a good number of film effects in Shot 61 of “The Shining”, some of which clearly seem to be beyond the norm. Here is a composite picture of the anomalies I created at the time.

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In studying the shot further, I saw additional lighting effects, but I think we may have hit the major ones in “strange? 01”. I believe the light shooting out of the psychiatrist’s head as the background tiger’s eyes realign with the top of her coat is obviously the first major effect of the shot, about 6 seconds in. The 2 spots around the dr.’s head near the end of the shot, appearing right at its last spoken word (“strange”) would be the final major effect. These form the frame to understand all else within.

Still don’t believe I’m on to something here, and these are mere film discolorations? Shots 61, 63 and 65 all have the same camera angle, and involve the psychiatrist asking Danny various questions about the vision of blood pouring out the Overlook Hotel’s elevators he experienced while brushing his teeth that day. Shots 62 and 64 switch to the same closeup of Danny, as he fields her various questions. In shot 65, which is continuous with 61-64 before it, the psychiatrist asks Danny what happened just before he started brushing his teeth. In shot 66, Danny replies that he was talking to Tony. Here’s what we see when we return to the psychiatrist, in a close up in shot 67. The blackboard in the background has moved, and now covers both tiger’s eyes!

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In shots 63 and 65 the tiger appears as it does in the first photo of this post from shot 61, with the blackboard askew and only covering part of the tiger’s right eye. So it’s obvious that Danny’s spirit accomplice Tony and this poster tiger are suppose to be equated with each other here, with the link being well-known cereal character Tony the Tiger. The psychiatrist then asks who Tony is, and Danny’s mother Wendy rather nervously explains that it is Danny’s imaginary friend. We only see the blackboard cover both tiger’s eyes during the several closeups of the psychiatrist during this sequence, and at the end of the movie chapter taking place within this room, when we return to the same camera angle as shot 61, the blackboard likewise returns to a state of askewness.

Why did Kubrick set all this up? In looking at the whole scene in Danny’s room further, Wendy’s eyes also don’t appear right at times, like one has been “artificially” enlarged, almost a popeye effect.

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I’m reminded here — and perhaps you the reader are as well when reading this observation of mine — that Shelly Duval played Olive Oyl in the movie Popeye, which was being conceived at the same time as the filming of The Shining.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEWswHtQUkc

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Hmmm…

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strange? 01

http://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/shining_interview.htm

… the scene goes black. (12:07)

After a moment, we hear a voice.

SHOT 61

(12:10: scene begins)

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(12:10: brown spot at top of screen above dr.; 2 tiger eyes effect above coat, then lost)

THE DOCTOR: That’s good, now

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(12:16: light shoots up from dr.’s head as she switches eyes right as 2 tiger eyes illusion reappears above her coat)

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(12:16: then black spot above dr.’s  head)

THE DOCTOR: … the other one. (The doctor switches to examining Danny’s left eye.) Good boy.

We hear a horn honk outside.

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(12:17: black dot on curtain between Snoopy and Goofy noses (see below))

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(12:18: black spot between dr. and Wendy as she finishes examining 2nd eye)

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(12:21: darker black dot on upper edge of screen, above dr.)

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(12:23: ring effect above dr. as Wendy looks down)

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(12:23: larger ring effect on Peanuts curtain drape as dr. closes case; Snoopy’s nose highlighted)

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(12:24: light to Wendy’s right as she closes eyes; dr. makes eye contact w/ Danny)

The doctor sits down next to Danny.

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(12:27: brighter light directly above Danny’s and dr.’s aligned hands)

THE DOCTOR: Now, Danny, when you were brushing your teeth, do you remember if you smelled anything funny or saw any bright flashing lights or anything at all strange?

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(12:38: 2 black specks on left side of dr.’s head as she says word “strange”)

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Hucka D.:

Best guess. The doctor becomes the bear at the end of that question. The askew bugs (which are Joe and Zoe!) in relation to the doctor’s hair twin the askew ears on the bear[ pillow Danny is laying on]. The hair colors (doctor and bear) are very similar; almost identical.

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Wendy is similarly a twin of Goofy to the right… same colors, again (red and blue). Wendy *is* goofy. Goofy appears to be attached to a string like a puppet. She *is* a puppet.

Hucka D.:

We take turns. Tiger next to Goofy is partially hidden by a small blackboard, one eye exposed and the other covered. Tiger equals Danny’s spirit bug [sic?] Tony, like Tony the Tiger. Need proof? Tony the Tiger is seen later on a box of cereal in the stor[age] room.

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Study… sorry.

Hucka D.:

Study blackboards. Dartboard, blackboards.

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(12:40: light to left of Wendy as she moves head)

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MORE bears from Collative Learning

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Corbett on Kubrick

A video that touches on a number of subjects recently brought up on this blog concerning CUBE BRICK.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFxJFv_wpqw

Probably related:

Omega Point.

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One more thing:

Corbett probably equals Colbert. I’ll let you the reader or readers figure that one out.

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/12/20/twins/

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/hand-holders-part-11/

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Dart Taboo

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bb:

I shouldn’t have written a reply tonight. I was a little drunk. I need to dry out for a night. Don’t want it to get the way it was. So to the map.

Hucka D.:

I’ll let you handle this one. Goodnight. Sorry.

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Dart:

Refers to the dartboard game of The Shining and the (one of the?) 3 red darts Danny throws at it in the Game Room scene during the Closing Day part of the movie.

http://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/remembrance_and_repetition_in_kubricks_the_shining.htm

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3 Shining darts and 3 U.S. darts (Alabama, Missouri, and this one in Ohio) — coincidence? The dartboard has already been assoc. here with Room 237 through reverse number 732.

Is Dart, Ohio the dart Danny leaves on the board or is it one of the 2 he pulls from the board just before seeing the Grady Twins for the first time? Notice that 2 darts he’s thrown point up, and the third, at the bottom, points down (to Hell?)

Shay:

I believe this refers to the “sha” ambient sounds in the movie remarked upon by several Shining researchers and called that specifically by Juli Kearns of Idyllopus Press. There is no “Sha” place name in U.S., and Shay’s about as close as you’d get, I’d suppose.

Additional note: There are also 3 Shays, like there are 3 Darts in US. 1 of 2 other Shays near Hellman in OK (see Fifteen below).

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Back up Shay as rhyming neighbors. Fay also goes into interesting directions of its own. (LINK) Fay is a witness.

Fifteen:

I believe this refers to the tarot card The Devil, the 15th Major Arcana card of the deck. Remember that Jack obviously poses as The Devil in the photo at the end of the movie. Fifteen represents the end of The Shining as well, then, the entrapment of Jack within the hotel forever and ever and ever (as the Grady Twins predicted).

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Very importantly here: Jack is also the Dark Man.

In the Tarot of Marseilles, the devil is portrayed with facial features in unusual places, such as a mouth on his stomach, eyes on his knees…

Steel Run, Moss Run, Cow Run:

I do not presently know their relevance here, if any. Perhaps interesting run of Runs, however (sorry).

Heslop:

Ditto. Seems like an anagram of something. But it’s actually a British surname. Heslop might go in several directions as well.

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

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jmohney/r_j__heslop.htm

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Obviously not as interesting on the surface as the MASH-Pennsylvania material reviewed previously on this blog in December. But let’s look a little closer. Let’s assume Shay represents the “sha” ambient sound of The Shining. Here’s what master researcher Juli Kearns has to say about it. Before getting to that, I’d put forth the idea that the “sha” sounds dictate almost another plot within the movie. Personally I’ve never heard of anything quite like it. When I found Dart, Ohio and Shay nearby, I immediately made the connection to The Shining noise. But to the quote:

http://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/shining_interview.htm

Jack has glanced in the direction of a model of the hotel’s maze as he crossed the circle upon which Dick will later fall when he is murdered by Jack, who will have been hiding in the lobby behind a pillar. The waiter and his silver service just disappearing from sight, perhaps behind a pillar, seems to be a foreshadowing of this. He would not be so completely hidden by the pillar, with his tray, had this not been staged.

Just a step beyond the circle, Jack’s glance moves up to the stairs on the right, briefly meeting that of a hotel employee who is coming down the steps. This is the stairway Jack will, in the “4 pm” section, use on his approach to the lobby in the scene where he murders Dick. As his glance meets the woman’s, he crosses the spot where Dick will be standing when Jack leaps out from behind the nearby pillar and kills him.

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At the same time we are taking in an elevator beyond, before which stands a man who carries a wrapped pole of sort, perhaps a fishing pole as he carries a hat which is typically used for fishing. We can tell he’s a new arrival as the red-coated valet behind him is porting his bags.

Two other things happen as Dick crosses this fatal spot. An elder man in light clothing has entered the area before the elevators from the hall beyond. This same man will later be seen examining the maze.

(3:27 crossing into 3:28) The second thing that happens is a subtle audio cue. We hear a brief, staccato voicing of “sha” which, at this point, we take as being part of the natural ambient noise of the lodge. I will write more about this voicing later. It’s enough now to note that it has meaning, expanding in some way on the action which will later occur on this spot, action which is already being anticipated.

So the first “sha” of the movie sounds right as Jack crosses the spot where he’ll later kill Halloran (Scatman Cruthers). Kearns states this happens at 3:27 in the movie, and associates it with an anagram of 237, like the dartboard’s 732. It’s at 3:26 by my player, but maybe she has a point there as well. Now let’s move to the *last* appearance of “sha” in the movie, a little over 48 minutes later. Shawnfella, creator of the Shone Report video on the subject, claims there are 16 instances of the sound in the movie. Clearly, however, there’s more than that, and Kearns adds a couple of her own. But these 2 “sha” researchers agree on what appears to be the last one. Let’s check out Juli’s take on this:

http://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/shining_saturday.htm

First, I want to note a similarity between Wendy removing a red line twice from the switchboard (2 tests) and Danny removing the 2 red tipped darts earlier in the film. Just a note.

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And another note before I get to the final “sha” stuff….

Coincidentally, as Wendy crosses over the circle where Dick is to die, an oval flaw appears in the film stock on the wall to the left, white enclosing a tan field. I saw this because I paused the film to get a shot that showed the television was on but we’re unable to see what is playing, and for the brief period of time it is shown whatever is on the screen appears static and isn’t moving.

To me, this could be the seed point for another whole “sha” style mystery about the film, since it occurs when Wendy crosses the very same place (death spot of Halloran) as Jack does during “The Interview” when the first “sha” occurs. Doesn’t seem coincidence (once more).

This scene is the last, to my knowledge, in which we hear the “sha” sound. As the conversation in which we hear it has to do with the lines being down–Wendy asking if there’s any chance of repair and the “sha” being heard before the ranger answers–my assumption is going to be that the “sha” sound somehow has to do with this and the lodge’s status of CRM-114, as it were, of estrangement, of being cut off, just as was the jet carrying the bomb cut off from the outside world in Dr. Strangelove, and Alex was separated out for the Ludovico treatment then cut off and shunned. The “sha” sounds may stop as a state of some degree of irreversibility has been reached. The Torrances, previous to now, perhaps had the possibility of leaving the lodge without a catastrophic incident occurring, whereas that is no longer the situation.

After finding out the lines are down when she can’t reach anyone at the switchboard, Wendy moves to the ham radio in Ullman’s Office and calls the forest service. The last sha occurs right after Wendy (KDK12) asks if there’s any chance of the phone lines being repaired, and before the young ranger (KDK1) replies that he doesn’t think so, and often the lines stay like that until Spring. Not a hopeful situation for Wendy.

Some notes, then. The first apparently “sha” of the movie, besides sounding right at the Halloran death spot, also occurs in the middle of a phone ring. The last “sha” here is placed in the middle of a conversation about downed phone lines. Must be a relationship, and the clincher for this is that a phone has *just disappeared* in the movie beside this young ranger in his office, and replaced by a blue notebook. The white sheet on the bulletin board in front of him, at the same time, is replaced by a pink sheet. These are *not* continuity errors but rearranged on purpose by master manipulator Kubrick. What’s he up to here???

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Danny originally shines in the movie during the dart game when he first sees The Twins.

And what lake is that between Shine and The Twins? It’s Teal, but who could tell from this map. May be *Pearl*?

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Nearby is Ta(r)boo Bay…

Parents sleeping with their children is taboo to the max.

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Twinned cypresses, green and brown

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December 17, 2013 · 9:30 am

Additional x 3

The cat topped City Hall now becomes a recognized, direct symbol of Shiny Hare, which is the same as Carrcass-10 I suppose.

The cat has shiny hare, as I’m now changing it — right now.

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The cat is also Catman, sacrificed at the end of the film. The City Hall honors Catman like this article honors The Shining’s Scatman.

If City Hall is this Carrcass-10, the VWX Tower perpendicular to it and 3 times as long is the joint Carrcass 8 and Carrcass 9. Carrcass 10 can be fitted in the middle of the two, as City hall lines up with the middle of VWX Tower in an overhead view below… and also the side view above as it turned out…

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I know Hucka D. would agree with this interpretation, since he’s called the VWX Tower an audiovisual tiling, and challenged me to guess what that means.

VWX Tower is towering, just like joined or twinned Carrcass-8 and Carrcass-9. It is a towering tiling, the best at least since 2007. 2013 was a good year for carrcasses, just as 1996 was for crop circles. Tilings are much like crop circles — I’ve long noticed that.

Since 2008, going back again, the most recent carrcass or carrcass to come rules the blog and influences its ideas in a hidden but super-strong way. A nice example is the Sunklands writing of Fall 2009 on the Baker Blinker Blog, culminating with the production of Carrcass-3 using the work of the very same Plant and Marty that were prominent guest spirits on the blog during this period. After Carrcass-3 had been created, these spirits were no longer as essential. Spirits related to *Carrcass-4* then took over, which takes us to Fall 2010 Pietmond. Another interesting example is the very beginning of the Baker Blinker Blog, where we have the otherwise inexplicable intrusion of creatures called Ancients, like Baker Block’s Mr. Low, like Shakenstein that similarly tormented and cursed poor Baker Blinker. Many blog posts could be devoted to this subject alone. The whole run of A-Z posts from Fall 2009 are a lot about Carrcass-1, the first such work formed during the existence of my blogs.

Why does this influence have to remain basically hidden if it is so prevalent, the reader or readers might be asking at this time? A good question indeed. Hucka D. usually helps me out here (pause) but I don’t think he’s still around.

Hucka D.:

Hi. Sorry I had to step out but I had to buy more playdough for my models. Have you seen them? Red, then green, then blue and yellow. Or green, red… aw, they’re pretty anyway.

bb:

Are you talking about the VWX Town towers?

Hucka D.:

No. (pause) But good you figured out what they were, what they stand for. And now you’re in the woods, which is a seed of a new carrcass, beyond even Carrcass 8, 9, 10. This is a mashup. And the new, accompanying collage series will be Farrar — don’t you think?

bb:

Possibility, Hucka D. (!)

Hucka D.:

And that’s why The Shining material is so prevalent in the blog now. Your blog now. It is the Omega to the Alpha which is Oz. You have reached the end of tiling as you’ve come to know it. Other people tile now, as you know. Simpler tiles, because you are the master of tiling. You know that.

bb:

Yeah, I suppose.

Hucka D.:

The new master structures of VWX Town simply mirror this mastering. Yet you don’t have a big head about it.

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Good to recognize, however. Now you must start to protect[ what you’ve done].

bb:

Yes.

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Hucka D.:

You must head out into the *real* woods and leave the play[dough] woods behind. Else you become a Jack Frozen Head, see.

bb:

Kind of.

Hucka D.:

Do you want the Rubi Woods to absorb you? Your back is getting healed. A 237 healing. Pull away from the dart board. Stop looking into the mirror. See the twins *out there*. Turn around. Face music. Enjoy!

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Danny tries the knob twice. The door is locked. Taking his hand down, he looks up at the number 237. This number is on the left hand side of the door, whereas all the other double doors in these halls have the room number on the right hand door.

The Shining – Danny looking up at the door before he sees the girls

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Fig. 22 – Danny looks up at the number.

190 MS The two girls. (42:44) A vision of the two girls glances through his mind.

The Shining – Danny sees the girls in the hall as he looks up at 237

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Fig. 23 – Danny sees the two girls.

It is when Danny looks at the number 237 that the girls glance through his mind, just as they had appeared when he was in the game room and playing darts, facing the 732 (237 in reverse) on the dart board.

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