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Category Archives: MAPS
Shining Pepper Project 03
Filed under Beetles, The, collages 2d, Maine, MAPS, Qbrick, Stanley, Shining, The
Zircon
http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/Old_Zircon
http://www.zappa.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=17001&start=50
fz:…the next thing you know, this guy named old zircon…
ba: …what’s the significance of zircon? i mean, you use the term zircon encrusted tweezers in one of your songs, what is zircon
fz: a zircon is a fake, cheap diamond…
… people who wear zircons are a special breed…
…now what you don’t know is that ethel the tree is under the control of old zircon who has this special flashlight that controls her thoughts and she’s operating billy, so this is all working in the background, just like a wagnerian opera…
Filed under California, Maine, MAPS, Zapple
Bull Rock
DIXFIELD — The beloved official town mascot, Bullrock the Moose, became a casualty of Wednesday evening’s ferocious thunderstorm.
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SponsorWednesday evening’s winds from a powerful thunderstorm toppled Bullrock the Moose, Dixfield’s mascot on the Village Green. The 11-year-old statue also had dry rot, which contributed to its downfall.
Strong winds knocked down the full-scale wooden sculpture, which had been standing in the Village Green since 2000.
“I heard the sad news of Bullrock’s destruction shortly after we opened (Thursday morning),” Charlotte Collins of the Dixfield Town Office said.
Wind was not the only factor contributing to the moose’s demise. Bullrock had developed a bad case of dry rot in his chest as well as his front right leg, making for an already unstable foundation.
Bullrock is named after a local legend, according to town records. The story goes that a wandering moose journeyed from the back side of Dixfield’s Sugarloaf Mountain, approached a formation known as Bull Rock on Sugarloaf and became so entranced with the beauty of the valley below that he lost his footing and plunged over the side to his death.
“Today, Bullrock’s spirit can be seen in the majesty of our forests and the steadfastness of our people,” according to town reports. “He not only symbolizes Dixfield’s colorful past, but represents a strong and steady future for all of us.”
Bullrock the statue began April 18, 2000, when Ted Walker of Peru began carving him. Money was provided by the Economic Development Council.
Walker took two weeks to complete Bullrock using 150-year-old white pine for his body and Norway pine and spruce for his legs and antlers. Falls Taxidermy supplied his big brown eyes and Dan Anctil supplied the log at Bullrock’s feet.
Bullrock was hoisted onto a concrete foundation by Anctil’s log loader and bolted tightly to the concrete slab.
As of early Wednesday afternoon, Bullrock remained in pieces on the ground on the Village Green.
“I have a feeling that Bullrock may rise again,” Collins said.
This image shows the original artwork from which the official Town of Dixfield Seal was developed. This representation of the Town of Dixfield was drawn by Letty Ellingwood and evolved into the official town seal. Shown are the Sugarloaves Mountain, Bull Rock, Webb River and Valley, moose, and wildlife. Dixfield’s mascot is a moose named Bull Rock, and its motto is “We Strive.”
Bullrock is back!
Eileen Adams
Eileen Adams, Staff WriterRiver Valley |
Monday, June 18, 2012DIXFIELD — A stronger, bigger and more resilient Bullrock arrived at the Village Green early Friday afternoon after more than a year of work to replace the town’s mascot.
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Eileen Adams/Sun JournalWood carver Ted Walker of Rumford anchors Bullrock to his platform early Friday afternoon.
Buy a printThe first Bullrock rotted from the inside after a few years, but this time, creator Ted Walker of Rumford took steps to prevent a similar demise.
The 9-foot tall, 1,500-pound moose is on a pedestal at the entrance to the Green along Route 2 near the village. It’s carved from pressure-treated wood, has some rubberized parts. It’s hollow but looks like a traditional wood carving.
Bullrock’s head is topped with a set of real moose antlers donated by a local hunter.
Norine Clarke, the driving force on the Dixfield Economic Development Council, said funding for the new moose came from insurance and large and small donations from area people.
A Welcome Bullrock party is set for 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 21, at the Village Green. A commemorative cake and punch will be served.
A stuffed moose created by Laurie Taylor and Moose Is Loose T-shirts designed by Hot Colors will be awarded to several of those attending who sign up at the event.
Bullrock was driven from Walker’s home on the Swain Road to its new home by Twin Rivers’ owner Alan Elliott and two employees. They used two of the company’s trucks to move the moose and other items needed to set it up at the Green.
Dixfield Police Department officer Anne Simmons-Edmunds provided an escort into town.
http://toddjburgess.photoshelter.com/image/I0000PUr_0ZngCWY
Filed under Bill Mountain, Frank Park, Maine, MAPS
Red Rock
Red rock wasn’t on the ice when I passed it the first time. Upon returning about 15 minutes later, it was there, prominently displayed. I don’t believe there’s any way I could have missed it.
The approx. 4 foot long ice flow that I broke off with a stick at the time *wasn’t* present, even though there appeared nowhere for it to go in the meantime. The piece broke off only several feet down from the red rock.
The wife and I got a laugh out of this when I told her about this aspect of the mystery, because it instantly reminded us of the Might Boosh jingle “Ice Flow, Nowhere to Go”, which we sing on occasion to cheer ourselves up during very cold weather. Do the Bill Mtn. aliens have a heightened sense of humor as well?
Nearby frozen P Creek. Frozen peas — hmm. Almost identical in angle to the last photo from this earlier F&HE! blog post from almost a year ago.
Neighboring red barn. Red again…
In the very next blog post…
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/so-2/
… Hucka D. psychically seems to hint at the manifestation of this future red rock. If so, it could also be connected to the future development of Epsi with its matching black and white rocks.
Hucka D.:
There’s two things to look for…
bb:
Land and water?
Hucka D.:
The black rocks, the white rocks. Black and white. (pause) Red.
Theory:
The Bill displaced Herbert, Alabama from Conecuh County to Butler County to be near Saucer and Forest Home. A particular geometric arrangement was even established, Fake Herbert, as we’ve been calling it, the same distance from Forest Home as Saucer. Herbert stands for Frank, as in *Frank* Park, home of Bill Mountain. We are now calling the aliens The Bill. Again: Fake Herbert, Alabama was set up by The Bill. They were indicating that Bill Mtn. is their *forest home*.
That Herbert was moved from near Paul to near Forest Home means that an attachment to author Frank Herbert and his Dune starring seer Paul Atreides has been removed, or perhaps *carried over*. This is now a Frank Park/The Bill issue. End and beginning of two, separate Cardinal Roads is also thrown in the mix. Together they stand for the beginning and end of the *middle* third of Baker’s Creek, Mississippi. They are at the 1/3 and 2/3 point of the creek from mouth (Port Gibson) to source. They emphasize *Cardinal Gibson* (Bob).
Red Rock is a summary point of Black Rocks and White Rocks, US of A. What’s black and white and red all over?
Filed under Alabama, Bill Mountain, Frank Park, MAPS
Steptoe Series 06: Other Considerations
(continued from?)
Giant Ear of Listening.
Close Encounters was used in Carrcass+2, a candidate for the best carrcass, plus or minus. Wyoming’s Devil’s Tower is featured in several ways. It represents place of contact. In real life now, Frank Park’s Bill Mtn. seems to represent a place of contact for me personally, transposed down from TILE Mountain in Herman Park just to the north. TILE Mtn., in 2006’s Carrcass+2, becomes directly related to CE’s Devil’s Tower. In Collage 04, in its 4 parts, we have what well might be symbols of this new contact, since a bull’s ear is indicated. Bill and Bull become one here through Bullrocks. Slowly but surely we slide into spring hiking season resonances. What’s next for these parks? (etc.)
Steptoe Butte is another form of Devil’s Tower is another form of TILE Mtn. is another form of Bill Mtn.
Fascinating that Kubrick most likely linked the Overlook Hotel’s mountain to Devil’s Tower as well.
Wendy’s projecting lid reminds me of the ear projecting from Steptoe Butte in Collage 04. She has removed the top of the mountain/can, making it flat on top.
A link with The Beatles’ Abbey Road can be made through the VW(s) and white lines.
Since it is a bull’s ear and not a bulls eye now, Danny’s dart suddenly becomes useless (theory). It transforms into a cigarette (or maybe a joint?) as useless becomes useful again. Jack partakes. Lloyd shows up as the supplier (“What will it be?”).
Lloyd is the best bartender from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine… or Portland, Oregon. West and east coast combine as one. We begin in Washington state from the other side. Lloyd is there, on Steptoe Butte. People are now lighting up legalized marijuana joints all over that state now, as well as in Colorado, setting for The Shining. Probably factors in. We had a joint in our car when we were beamed up into Grayson space.
Mr. Beam.
Hucka D.:
So now you know that the bull’s ear is the Bullrocks. What are you going to do about it? You are at Bullrocks and you see twins, right?
Filed under Beetles, The, MAPS, Qbrick, Stanley, Shining, The, Washington
Mystery Eye (yellow).
It doesn’t belong to anyone in the photograph. It is like the eye in the Rubi Forest that stared back at me. Hucka?
—–
Hucka D.:
Are you saying that there are 199 trees, er, people in that photo, baker b.?
bb:
Dunno, Hucka D. Surely a 1:1 match isn’t taking place.
Hucka D.:
Plus you don’t like 1:1 matches any more. Film/album style, I mean.
bb:
No I suppose I don’t. I’m up to level 3.
Hucka D.:
A rarified point indeed. But you better start to solidify the backlog. The Shining is getting you some attention. You are figuring things out. Where are we on Texas?
bb:
Well, I’ve revealed the basic bones of Carrcass-10, perhaps the final carrcass, as The Shining represents the Omega point.
Hucka D.:
Correct. And [ delete name] are now Story Room, the band. Red, yellow, blue; Circle, triangle, square. I suggest you return to Steptoe Butte for more collages. Here…
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=131968
Put some heads in that one.
bb:
Which one.
Hucka D.:
Oh heck. Wait, then.
Filed under MAPS, Qbrick, Stanley, Shining, The, Washington
Steptoe Series 05
bb:
So we’re at Collage 05, which is not an animation. Like Collage 01, Collage 03. Unlike Collage 02, Collage 04. I’m not sure if Hucka D. is going to help me with today’s installment of a Steptoe collage series interpretation. We’ve discussed the relation of The World tarot card with the poster behind the Grady Twins appearing to Danny in the game room of the Overlook Hotel. We superimpose Jack as The Devil (Tarot card #15), replacing The World card’s bull (Taurus) in the lower left corner. Horned bull becomes horned Devil, and also Danny is playing a game of darts when he sees the Twins, with a *bull’s eye* at the center of the dartboard.
I’ve just talked about how Jack’s shiny eye pupil, near the very end of The Shining, briefly acts as a ring for a woman behind him in the photo. I’ve called her, for this reasons, the “Ring Woman”, and I believe she’s attached in mysterious, synchy ways to Ringo Starr, who also wears a prominent ring in the movie Help, and which gets him in a lot of trouble. This Ring Woman’s right eye also becomes, again briefly in a crossfade, a very prominent and easily noticable “3rd eye” of yet another person in the photo, a male this time, and further back in the crowd than even Ring Woman, who is in turn behind Jack at the front.
If we scrub out the faces of the 4 front and present Beatles on the Sgt. Pepper album (as opposed to the b&w “past” Beatles to their right), and then superimpose Ring Woman’s face on Ringo’s to center the now backing Shining photo, the following occurs. It’s perhaps interesting that in the translation both John and George’s faces become half black and half white, with John’s face almost exactly halved (black side: right; white side: left), and George’s quartered (black to sw and ne; white to se and nw). Paul’s face becomes one-eyed, very much like that of Johnny Weissmuller to his right. Just a note here.
Back to the Steptoe collage series analysis: Jack’s hand.
Jack’s hand in Collage 05 has been replaced by The Devil’s hand from the tarot’s 15th trump or Major Arcana card. The devil’s hand from this card appears scarred, just as Jack might wear a bandaid in the Shining’s July 4th ball photograph. It also could relate to palmistry and the various lines of the hand such as heart, head, and life or health. Recall, if you will, that the subject of palmistry and the hand has come up in connection with Herman Park’s Sharieland from the past fall, and that some of its major features have been identified with palmistry ones.
In what is perhaps the last collage of the Steptoe series — Collage 07 — we have the return of this same hand, but with “1.25” written underneath it in blue, like a caption for a picture.
0.125 is 1/8th of 1. Chapter 125 of the Tibetian Book of the Dead is where we find a description of the “weighing of the heart” judgment, also probably attached to this final Shining image. The Subliminal Synchrosphere blog talks about it here…
http://subliminalsynchrosphere.blogspot.com/2012/09/kubricks-shining-2001-aso.html
…you can see Jack seems to be tendering a piece of paper (a message) to the heavens (above) or to us….yet a man behind him seems to be trying to restrain him from doing so or is he attempting to correct/level the scales!?
Now look at the woman in the photo….look at the single feather & the heart. I think she is referencing the Feather of Maat.
http://www.egyptianmyths.net/feather.htm%5Dhttp://www.egyptianmyths.net/feather.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maat%5Dhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaatA great judgement…isn’t it?
The 20th card of the Tarot ‘major arcana’. The ‘horn of judgement’…that doubles as a prop to denote a New Years party and midnight.
Re: The synch…now if you have the music playing from 2001 : ASO (Thus Spake Zarathustar/the world riddle) and The Shining together…you’ll hear the very loud ‘brass’ sound of horns when we see this picture and the man with the party blower…denoting the horn of judgement blowing! (i only used the sound from The Shining, this time…so as not to confuse things too much, but it is important to realise the aforementioned ‘horn’ music!
In the Duat, the Egyptian underworld, the hearts of the dead were said to be weighed against her single “Feather of Ma’at”, symbolically representing the concept of Maat, in the Hall of Two Truths (Overlook lobby hall). A heart which was unworthy was devoured by the goddess Ammit (Amemet/Cyncocephalus) and its owner condemned to remain in the Duat (earthly plane). The heart was considered the location of the soul by ancient Egyptians. Those people with good and pure hearts were sent on to Aaru (afterlife, ascendence).
Arms….Jack looks like a ‘tipped’ set of scales….unfortunately for him, it denotes that his heart is heavy with sin! He is destined for the Duat or earthly plane, again!!! Heart on the right and feather on our left, as it is in the Egyptian references. Is the man with his hand on Jack’s arm also a reference to him trying to rebalance the scales…a possiblity to consider?
So in the 1921 pic he is both ‘baphomet’ (sodomy god, the beast instinct, above & below, microcosm & macrocosm) and the ‘scales’…double layering.
So I think the 1.25 is referencing this Chapter 125 and also the fraction 1/8th (more soon on the latter?). What of the rainbow shaped pattern of yellow balls in the background of Collage 07 here? I believe it represents a return to the beginning of the series and Collage 01. I imagine the location of Stipe Cememtery to be in the general vicinity of the illuminated “eye-ball” at the bottom of this rainbow, the pot at the end, if you will, but also at the beginning. We return here to Story Room and the central figure of Tom’s Petty High, also a golden triangle.
Collage 01: return from Steptoe Butte back to the Stipe Cemetery area.
Filed under collages 2d, MAPS, Qbrick, Stanley, Shining, The, Washington
Chat.
Hucka D.:
Yes?
bb:
I thought we’d just chat. So much information still coming in. Really, it’s been streaming in since October. I’m downsizing in Second Life for certain, now.
Hucka D.:
As it is to be. Time to do[ it].
bb:
I have *all* the Rubi land up for sale now.
Hucka D.:
It’s time. Good run.
bb:
Will you help me with the remainder of the collage analyses tomorrow?
Hucka D.:
You bet!
—–
bb:
Where does all this [Shining research] end?
Hucka D.:
At the map. Jack’s head. Contact.
bb:
Simple as that?
Hucka D.:
Yep.
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Billfork takes place in Montana. The Shining in Colorado, but part of it was filmed in Montana.
Hucka D.:
Listening.
bb:
4orrin1 should be analyzed as well.
Hucka D.:
Quite so. World.
bb:
What next for The Shining?
Hucka D.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Minnow_Pea
The novel is set on the fictitious island of Nollop, off the coast of South Carolina, which is home to Nevin Nollop, the supposed creator of the well-known pangram “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” This sentence is preserved on a memorial statue to its creator on the island and is taken very seriously by the government of the island. Throughout the book, tiles containing the letters fall from the inscription beneath the statue, and as each one does, the island’s government bans the contained letter’s use from written or spoken communication. A penalty system is enforced for using the forbidden characters, with public censure for a first offense, lashing or stocks (violator’s choice) upon a second offense and banishment from the island nation upon the third. By the end of the novel, most of the island’s inhabitants have either been banished or have left of their own accord.
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: “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs,” which has only 32 letters. The council accepts this and restores the right to all 26 letters to the populace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained_writing
65th
Jacks sabotages the ham radio located in Ullman’s Office, completely blocking the hotel from the outside world.
While he’s prizing off the top, his head grazes a portion of the Colorado map on the wall. At first I thought there was an *extra county* Kubrick fabricated for the map that Jack’s head indicated, the 65th of the state beyond the actual real and present 64. But, if so, it doesn’t appear on the blu-ray version (Did I say here we purchased a blu-ray player for the first time? And I have The Shining on blu-ray!), so I’m just going to assume it’s a trick of the eyes. But this doesn’t discount that Jack’s head rests *right above* a plateau in northern Hinsdale County called *Canibal or Cannibal*. There’s a reason for this, I quickly found out, and it has to do with a man named Alferd Packer, famous in Colorado parts, and one of the most noted of all cannibals. Never mind that I hadn’t heard of him, and you probably haven’t either. His story from wikipedia…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alferd_Packer
Old Hinsdale County map where I first came across “Canibal Plateau”, above the county seat of Lake City.
Detail of the plateau. I was also curious to note the presence of both a Devil’s Creek and a Fourth of July Creek flowing near its northern side here. The final photo of The Shining supposedly comes from a 1921 Fourth of July celebration, where Jack is obviously posed as the tarot’s Baphomet, better known as *The Devil*. There’s also a Devil’s Lake, Devil’s Canyon and Inferno Creek nearby to reinforce the association. Again: quite bizarre seeming.
http://www.mytopo.com/products/quad.cfm?code=o38107a2
Strongest evidence that Kubrick wanted to highlight Alferd Packer’s story here? It just so happens that Jack and his family discuss another famous cannibal story as they wind their way through the mountains toward the hotel on closing day. I’ll just insert the related dialog below. It concerns the Donner Party.
Here’s a thought: did Kubrick slyly indicate in all this that Jack not only wished to kill his family at the end but to *consume them*? I believe this is a strong possibility, given the evidence at hand.
So let’s return to shot 98 once more — touched upon in a blog post just before this one for something totally unrelated seeming — and pick up right after Wendy yawns…
DANNY: Dad.
JACK: Yes?
DANNY: I’m hungry.
JACK (irritated): Well, you should have eaten your breakfast.
But isn’t this a scene played out in countless cars on countless trips in countless families, so there’s no reason for the audience to count this against Jack. Still, another question mark as to his character is tabulated.
WENDY: We’ll get you something as soon as we get to the hotel.
DANNY: Okay, mom.
Speaking of getting something to eat…
WENDY: Hey, wasn’t it around here where the Donner party got snowbound?
And we remember Jack telling Ullman of her interest in horror stories.
JACK: I think that was farther west in the Sierras.
DANNY: What was the Donner Party?
JACK: They were a party of settlers in covered wagon times. They got snow bound one winter in the mountains and they had to resort to cannibalism in order to stay alive.
DANNY: You mean they ate each other up?
JACK: They had to in order to survive.
Wendy interrupts, reproving.
WENDY: Jack…
And of course we see it as an ill foreboding.
DANNY: Don’t worry, mom. I know all about cannibalism, I saw it on TV.
Raising his eyebrows, Jack contemptuously mocks.
JACK: See, it’s okay, he saw it on the television.
Video of this scene:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-y0UTtmJnhbbbJ/the_shining_1980_driving/
Filed under Colorado, Qbrick, Stanley, Shining, The
Lights, Discolorations
Shot 249: fleck of white under bed. No light on refrigerator.
Near end of shot: 1 frame light on refrigerator — again, toggle back and forth between the 2 pictures if you wish to get the effect. This appears to be the last frame of the shot as well. I felt the need to note this even if it is a continuity error, since the red car in the bathroom window behind Jack is an important element in this and other posts of my blog. It is directly associated to the similar red trapezoid shape on the CH O KING posters we’ll be introduced to shortly in the boiler room. It’s very possible that the presence of the red car here represents “choking” itself. A distinct possibility, perhaps even a probability. The window also acts as Danny’s escape hatch from axe-wielding Jack later, as he squirms through it and slides down a huge pyramid-shaped snow drift to temporary safety. But for now the way is “blocked” by the red car, perhaps. Also keep in mind here that Danny has only come up to the room and risked disturbance of his supposedly sleeping father to retrieve a red firetruck toy. The vehicle on the bathroom ledge doesn’t appear to be a firetruck, but certainly an association can be made.
Next up we have a 1 frame “glowing footprint” when Grady takes Jack back to the bathroom to clean off the advocaat (a rich and creamy liqueur made from eggs, sugar and brandy) he just spilt on him by accident.
Grady steps on the location of the future glow…
… then the glow or aftereffect occurs when he lifts his foot for the next step.
A perhaps even more pecuiliar effect takes place soon after Jack and Grady enter the bathroom. Just as Grady sets down his tray on the sink, a conspicuous discoloration or flaw appears on the entrance door reflected in a mirror to his right, a mirrored door we have just observed Grady and Jack open to enter the bathroom. I don’t see how this could be an accident — talking purposeful Kubrick film manipulation here again — and goes in line with other, similar one frame film flaws occurring at sounds we’ve noted elsewhere.
Next frame: discoloration gone. Once more, toggle back and forth between these 2 screen captures.
The next scene I wish to review for these kind of flaws is shot 109, where Jack and Wendy are shown their humble living quarters in the hotel by manager Ullman. As Kearns notes below, Wendy is obviously disappointed at staying in the staff wing of the hotel and not one of the guest rooms.
http://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/shining_closing_day.htm
STUART: This is the staff wing of the hotel.
As if in excuse for lodging the Torrances in the decidedly not-very-elegant staff portion of the lodge, he adds…
STUART: None of the other bedrooms are heated during the winter.
WENDY: Oh.
Wendy, who had been cheery up until now, realizing that this wing is where is their home for the winter, is quietly shattered, her face falling.
In reviewing this section, I noticed a more prominent film flaw to Wendy’s left as she scans the modest bedroom. I soon realized it points directly to the bathroom mirror that will soon be exposed from behind her as she continues to walk toward it.
And as soon as we get a good, square look at the mirror between Jack and Wendy here, another prominent discoloration, a large green splotch, appears on the wall beside the window. I’ve not seen a green discoloration before this, just as I’ve seen mention of only one yellow discoloration or seeming film flaw in The Shining — taking place on this very same mirror.
See here for details or a review:
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2014/01/08/keys-01/
A white speck appears on the frame after this, and then, 1 or 2 frames later, 2 brown spots. Together, these closely timed aspects seem to form a triangle. I’ve created a composite photo of the effects below. While it may be nothing, I’m trying to be a completist here as much as I dare.
Jack and Wendy then walk into the bathroom to end shot 109. Two more dark specks appear to the right of the prioritized mirror in this particular frame.
Jack: Cozy.
We first see Wendy’s brown flower at the beginning of the “Closing Day” section, when they are driving through the mountains to the hotel.
Cut to the interior of the car, Jack driving, no one looking too cheery. Wendy, wearing a wilted brown flower decoration on her brown jacket, as if an expression of summer’s end, yawns sleepily.
WENDY: Boy, we must really be high up. The air feels so different.
Which is just fact, the higher you go the more rarefied the air, but reminds me of a switch in states of awareness or consciousness and of Danny’s lapsing into trance which he will tell Dick Hallorann is like sleep. Also brought to my mind is the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk, the boy who who was sent hungry to bed as he traded the family’s cow for magic beans rather than money, who had the next day climbed high into the cloud on the magic beanstalk which sprouted out of those beans, to the castle of the cannibal giant who possessed gold and a golden harp and the golden goose. And here we have the family moving from Boulder, high into the mountains, to this gigantic hotel where they expect to share in a small taste of a beautiful, luxurious, resort lifestyle.
Filed under MAPS, Qbrick, Stanley, Shining, The, Washington
Sunklands 