“This is the Place”
Alright Hucka Doobie. What is *this* about?
Hucka D.:
You used my full name. You *must* be interested.
bb:
Cool. I’ll go ahead and start. The figure in the middle, at its base, is Jack from the movie The Shining. His face has been hollowed out, so to speak, to let a cartoon version of his laughing face peek through, or bleed through. This would include the crazy, spiky green hair, the two asymmetrical bulging eyeballs, and the single tooth gaping mouth. In turn, the crazy mouth is hollowed out to show the field and path beyond. So in a way the Jack figure could be seen as a facade.
Hucka D.:
This is you. You and your job, your responsibilities. This is a perfect mirror. You are trying to reach through to the beyond, the place where you won’t face responsibilities as part of the facade. Challenges lie ahead, yet you already see the end. You have to go through these because Edna has her own set of responsibilities, outside of this. This is on *your* head.
bb:
So the prez is my boss, and also my co-worker.
Hucka D.:
Yes. Similar to the shark in the Falmouth series. Yet you’ve progressed even beyond that. You’ve returned from England, more mature. The shark aspect is more in shadow or outline. *All* look beyond now. A clock is ticking in the distance, yet keeps the same time. 2:23. That is what everyone is headed toward.
bb:
I am also Mouse. The Mouse.
Hucka D.:
Definitely. That is fear. Fear of Shark, in a way. Fear of axing even, perhaps. But it’s two mouths in one. There’s the shark’s mouth overlapped with the man-woman’s mouth. This has to do with beyond the facade, the job, the work.
bb:
This is a gateway collage.
Hucka D.:
Yes.
bb:
The setting is Frank Park, across the road from Bill Mountain but still close. In the background we have a mound. It use to be much larger when Edna and I made that film there. Perhaps I should post the film to Youtube: “This is the place” (title of film, perhaps). (pause). You know in looking at that mound, I think it is the older, larger version, the Tiny Silbury version. I think we see only the top of it from our perspective here.
Hucka D.:
Wyeth’s painting character… stares at it. This is Christina. You should study that painting.
bb:
I will. The fox jumping over the dog is reference to the… let me look up the word from the Nollop post, perhaps. Hold on.
Hucka D.:
Holding.
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https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/chat-3/
So it refers to the *pangram*, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” This is that fox, that dog. The fox jumps again. The dog lazes (in front of the mound). And it’s all in that speaking balloon. This is what Jack says.
Hucka D.:
And what shark says and what man-woman says. They all say the same thing. All are headed toward 2:23.
bb:
The corndog reappears from the Falmouth series as well. Shark hates corndogs. Corndogs are a symbol of laziness?
Hucka D.:
In part. Think bigger picture. What is the role of the corndog in the days beyond?
bb:
It’s still not too far from Jack’s hand. It’s there still. Lying in the middle of the path before Jack. Ready to be partaken of.
Hucka D.:
President Rutherford “Booger” Hayes then plays a role. He was last seen in this here blog eating corndogs, I believe.
bb:
Could be. Project Big Chimney.
Hucka D.:
Think about that project again.
Shark is not a bad shark. It is saying, think of the beyond. The quick brown fox jumping over the lazy dog. This is your challenge. You are *both* the fox and the dog. This is your decision point. The two tendancies, action and nonaction, oppose each other. This is your job and your not-job, one fitted inside the other.
bb:
And the mound between them.
Hucka D.:
This is the mound of the future. All gaze and ponder upon it. This is the place. No one has all the answers now, not you, not the boss, not the co-workers.
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bb:
Oh, and then the pea pod in the front of the collage, subbing for Jack’s left arm, is another reference to the Dunn novel “Ella Minnow Pea”. A pea pod is on the cover of the novel. This is the same pea pod that Baker Bloch found underneath the weathered bench at one end of Baker’s Isle in Second Lyfe — *his* Baker’s Island.
Hucka D.:
Yes. Further identifying you, baker b., with the central Jack figure here. This is LMNOP.
bb:
This is tiling.
Hucka D.:
Yes.
The island’s high council becomes more and more nonsensical as time progresses and the alphabet diminishes, promoting Nollop to divine status. Uncompromising in their enforcement of Nollop’s “divine will”, they offer only one hope to the frustrated islanders: to disprove Nollop’s omniscience by finding a pangram of 32 letters (in contrast to Nollop’s 35, or just 33 in the version “A quick brown…”). With this goal in mind “Enterprise 32″ is started, a project involving many of the novel’s main characters. With but five characters left (L, M, N, O, and P), the elusive phrase is eventually discovered by Ella in one of her father’s earlier letters:
Sunklands 