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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).

Fay, Shley:

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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Not a dumb man

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Rutherford “Booger” Hayes, the stubbiest US president, enjoying a corndog at his Mouse Island retreat in Lake Erie.

“Some say he even terraformed the island to be shaped like a corndog, Hucka D. It was his favorite favorite food.”

“It was at this island that the Pact was made, baker b.,” answered Hucka D. back. “He was told about the book. And Arkansas.”

“That Arkansas controlled all because it was the center,” I returned. For I was baker b.

“The book had yet to be written.”

“He was told of Norris at that time,” I said. For Hucka D. and I were on the same wavelength again. “Norris was not even yet out of law school. But he was told. He was told Norris would go to Beaver City, Nebraska, foretelling of his creation of dams later on, including Wheeler and Wilson, the first two to go.”

“My turn,” replied Hucka D. The Bee. He looked around the room we were in with his goofy eyes. We were at the Mouse Island lodge. A caravan was approaching. “Here’s Booger himself.”

Booger walked in the door. The top of his head was at my waist. He was about the same height as Hucka D., however. They stared eye to eye, perhaps kindred souls of some sort even. “So what of Spider?” I asked him.

“Webb?” he replied. He waved his free hand in the air. “Codes. Bargains. It was all so complicated. I didn’t have the pineapple open. I couldn’t tell what was going on. I’m not a Dumb Man either.”

“Were you told of the beginnings of Second Life?” I asked, knowing that a virtual film based on the Sherwood Anderson short story made up the first Second Life related post of this blog.

“Yes,” came the short and simple answer. “But how could I know what I was looking at?” Booger stared up at me and then levelly at Hucka D. Hucka D. looked at me. The stubbiness before me was a little disconcerting. Maybe I’ll edit that sentence later.

“He was shown that very same film (!)” I then exclaimed to Hucka D., after the lodge had vanished and we were back in the present.

“Yes,” came his answer. The background was now the familiar white. I liked it. “He was told that a man from Sandusky would make this story which would be made into this film. But the film is from another reality. He then was told of the 12 Oz Mouse codes, and R110. He was told how to terraform his beloved Mouse Island to be shaped like a corndog for future generations to see and admire. He took the island into Second Life, terraformed it, and then brought it back to this life — Real Life. Then he made — or was told how to make — duplicate islands to be planted all over the world to lead back to this central island. Baker’s Island that begins the whole Baker Blinker Blog is an example. Block Island of Rhode Island is an example[ for the Baker Bloch Blog, aka Frank and Herman Einstein]. Certain clues would be laid out. Rock cairns would play a part.”

“Thanks for that information, Hucka D.,” I said. He smiled. He went to the shelf and removed a red book. Small — no title on the spine or on the front. He opened to page 156.

Noticing this I said, “I’ve already received that message.”

“Received it more,” he came back levelly. He continued to flip through it. “Have you read about Drink Lake yet? Fascinating. You know Lisa the Vegetarian was given Hand Lake and then decided to expand it through this book. The book is the father. Norris was a father; Anderson was a father. Together they created a memory pool of Sandusky County and Clyde extending almost from the years 1860 to 1900, a two score. Booger was told of this.

“There are 2 books,” I conjectured. “One by Anderson and then one by Anderson with an extra ‘s’.”

“We do not need to talk about that,” replied Hucka D. “Just know it and be done. You have reached this point. We are talking together now. We have taken another step.”

“So I take this book, chop it up in virtual reality — Second Life — and then bring it back to this blog, so to speak.”

“Yes,” said Hucka D. matter-of-factly. He replaced the book on the shelf. The shelf faded from view. Whiteness again.

We sat in silence for a bit.

“I suppose he was also told of Hays County Texas then.” Hucka D. started whistling and staring up in the air instead of answering me. “Removing the “e”,” I then said more to myself, for I felt Hucka D. was “away” I’ll say. “Where was the “e” taken?” I had to ask. “Chilbo? Could it be Chilbo?”

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