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January 21, 2014 · 5:04 pm

Steptoe Series 04

A second, smaller Danny-head suddenly appears from the back of his first head, turning the opposite way.

What we have here in this 4 part collage animation is a meshing of several separate scenes from The Shining. The Danny related images — head, arm, dart, extra head — come from early in the film, when he first directly encounters the Grady Twins while playing darts in the game room of hotel the family’s just arrived at. Danny throws 3 darts at the board, scores no points apparently, (missing the scoring area each time) and then goes up to the board and pulls 2 of the 3 darts out before being “alerted” to the presence of the twins behind him. We’ve also spoken about how the board in front of him would have a backwards 2-3-7 in alternating numbers (culled from Kearns’ research once more). The last dart he pulled was right below the 3 in the center, reinforcing this. There’s no doubt, to me, that the character Danny sees all this, and attaches the dartboard with Room 237 later on in the film. He’s a bright boy — he “shines” even. 🙂

Why is Danny then throwing a dart at Steptoe Butte, and at a giant ear no less? We’ve identified the ear as that of Michael Stipe, lead singer of the REMs. Michael Stipe has been translated, through the not-to-be-underestimated power of Carrcass-1, into the variant Steptoe Butte (same name as the mountain), heading a variant band known as Murmur (in “our” reality, the name of the 1st album of REM). The giant ear seems to be about their music, since it is Stipe’s. I’ve already speculated, I believe, (writing this several weeks after the last collage interpretation) that this is more about the belittled early single “Shiny Happy People”. And this brings us directly to the second, major section of The Shining indicated in Collage 04 images: the Jack-Lloyd bar scene. Or actually scenes plural, since Jack visits the time warp bar on two separate occasions while living in the hotel. From the bar scenes, we have Jack’s head, Lloyd’s head, and the lighted top of the bar itself between them. In a two tier process, these second Shining elements emerge from behind the first (Danny-dart throwing). And in Collage 04c, we have an interesting transformation of Danny’s dart into what appears to be a cigarette or maybe a cigar. But perhaps it is a marijuana cigarette instead — a joint? Anyway, it certainly also doubles as a lighted fuse if so, and in Collage 04d, the final permutation, the background Jack-Lloyd stuff disappears in a flash of white hot light, taking Danny’s arm and transformed dart with it, and also the inverted VW bug (blue) rushing toward the mountain in 04a, 04b, and 04c. I suppose that would be another, different aspect of The Shining to figure in here — Jack driving the VW bug up to the hotel at the beginning of the movie, and then again (plural scenes once more), when taking wife Wendy and son Danny to the hotel after procuring the winter caretaker position. The VW has reversed position and color (yellow to blue) from Collage 03 before this. I believe it represents a switch from emphasis on Tom’s Petty High (Tom Petty variant band) to Murmur (REM variant band) in Carrcass-1, per the colors demonstrated in Collage 00, 01, and 02 already (red = Story Room, yellow = Tom’s Petty High, blue = Murmur). That Danny’s head rests atop Stipe’s torso and Stipe’s ear projects from Steptoe Butte in Collage 04 reinforces this interpretation.

Bull’s eye becomes Bull’s ear — what does this mean, then? We’ve all heard the expression eye for an eye (and tooth for tooth), which means retributions will equal damages done. The ear is on top of Steptoe Butte, and Stipe has become the same as Steptoe in variant terms… so the mountain’s top represents *his* top (or head — ears included). That Stipe’s *eye* shows up on Danny’s bigger head in Collage 04d is telling… as the ear disappears at the same time after being present in 04a, 04b, and 04c. I believe that the spirit of Danny has quote unquote possessed the head of Stipe, or Stipe allowed this takeover — for the purposes of enacting the collage animation. When the process ends, i.e., the Jack-Lloyd elements have been manifested and then destroyed, in effect, then Danny can allow Stipe to repossess the head, eye returned (and perhaps the rest of the head’s elements shortly). The smaller Danny head then emerges from the back of the larger Danny head, which is being returned to Stipe, we’ll say. This smaller head then becomes the true Danny-head after this. The head turns around from the position of the first. In The Shining, this is when Danny turns his head away from the dartboard to view the Grady Twins. The dart game appears to be over, just as the Jack-Lloyd bar elements of Collage 04 and the Steptoe collage series as a whole have ended.

Moving on for now: what happens in Collage 05?

Well, The twins are also seen there (!), but in a grassy meadow and not in the game room. We’re still near Steptoe Butte with this picture’s background, so one can imagine the smaller and now truer Danny-head actually sees this collage when turning around from Steptoe Butte itself. He sees the twins, but he also sees Jack from the very end of The Shining movie, positioned like The Devil in his namesake tarot card as also already talked about quite a lot in this blog. I’ve also seen discussion about the Grady Twins being identified with The Twins card (card 6 of the Major Arcana, as The Devil is card 15), and there’s actually a degraded version of what appears to be these same twins in card 15, now loosely chained to the devil itself and not free.

And there’s yet another tarot card more obviously present in Collage 05: The World, its final (21st) trump card. Behind the first physical appearance of the Grady Twins in the movie is a controversial poster seeming to depict, in a lower resolution capture, some kind of horned being surrounded by what might be an ourobouros image, or a snake swallowing its tail. To me, it seemed very similar to the circular wreath of “The World” card, and earlier in this blog I made an attempt to overlap the two and discuss the results. Through Collage 05, I’ve now more successfully integrated the two, and also incorporated Jack’s image as the devil. How is this done? Through the bull pictured on The World Card, which lies in the lower left corner to us. Simply put, I substituted the bull’s head of the card with Jack’s, or, more accurately, superimposed Jack’s head atop the bull’s. The bull represents Taurus in the card, one of the four fixed signs of astrology along with Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius. Each of these signs are represented in the card by figures: bull for Taurus as spoken about, lion for Leo, eagle for Scorpio, and man for Aquarius.

“The World” tarot card.

Danny first sees the Grady Twins, w/ controversial poster under discussion highlighted.

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January 21, 2014 · 7:51 am

Steptoe Series 03

(continued from)

bb:

As usual, Hucka D., I’m rushed for time, even though I should have a bunch of time.

Hucka D.:

Too many projects. Too many project reviews. That’s good!

bb:

So I’m enlisting your help again.

Hucka D.:

No. You can do it.

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This is Collage 4 of the Steptoe collage series, which is in four parts of an animation. We’ll call these 04a, 04b, 04c, 04d. The above is 04a. Hucka D. wants me to do this alone. We have Jack’s VW bug, but reversed in color from yellow to blue, and heading the opposite way from the previous collage (Collage 03) already reviewed. Jack’s son Danny from The Shining also re-emerges here, or at least his head and arm. He’s already appeared the Steptoe series in Collage 02, also an animation, and taking place in the midst of a small Washington state cemetery named Stipe (variant name: McConnell). Collage 03 also takes place in the same general vicinity, or at the entrance to the same cemetery. In Collage 04, we also haven’t moved far away, staying in the area to visit Steptoe Butte about 10 miles to the nw of the cemetery. The butte is a very prominent landmark, rising about 1000 feet from the surrounding, flatter terrain. It can probably be spied from the cemetery itself. So what is happening in the 4 part Collage 04 animation? The figure of 04a has Danny’s head, true, but a different body. It’s that of REM lead singer Michael Stipe, culled from an earlier Jan. blog post. Danny, with his own hand, is playing a game of darts not with a dartboard but Steptoe Butte itself, with the traditional board’s bullseye being replaced by an ear. Eye for an ear. It is then a bull’s ear. So what does *this* mean? Hucka D. is still not going to help me. The ear is that of Michael Stipe again, severed from the head and placed near the top of the butte. As Stipe is a musician, we might assume this has to do with hearing or listening to his music. And I think the particular song inferred here is “Shiny Happy People”, as will become evident during the animation’s progression. So here we have ear substituted for eye; Michael Stipe’s body substituted for Danny’s; and Jack’s VW car and car shadow reversed. Keep in mind as well that Steptoe Butte has become a variant name of Michael Stipe himself — Michael and this standalone mtn. have become one and the same in the collage series. As Stipe/Steptoe Butte have been assoc. with the color blue through the cube topped Story Room figure, it seems that the change in Jack’s VW color signifies that we have moved into REM territory and away from Tom Petty’s yellow.

Tom Petty’s signature song of Carrcass-10 is “Running Down a Dream”, dubbing the very first part of the movie where we have the golden bug navigating through huge ~~Montana~~ Colorado mountains. If we run with the current theory, then the REMs’ primary or significant song is “Shiny Happy People”, although their later hit “Stand” is also included in Carrcass-10 (as Petty’s “Don’t Come Around Here No More” represents his own second and last entry in C-10). The reason I believe this is that pictorial elements dubbed by this song in The Shining begin to appear in Collage 04b, which would be the Jack-Lloyd scenes at the bar of the hotel’s Gold Room.

The dart and the ear are still there, true, but behind them is now the head of Jack and Lloyd respectively. Also significant is that the lighted bar glass appears in the road below them, a seeming continuation of the white trailing VW from 04a. The original photo I took all 3 of these Gold Room elements from is this one.

In Collage 04c, the held dart and target ear have vanished altogether, leaving us with a plain view of Jack and Lloyd the bartenders’ heads. The inverted blue VW has reappeared, but further away and on Steptoe Butte itself now, forming a tight pyramid-type triangle with the 2 aforementioned heads.

This is a continuation of the animation of 04a (car with light shadow) and 04b (lighted bar top), and now it can be inferred that the bar itself is one with this inverted VW and its shadow. The road leading to Steptoe Butte gives the appearance of a runway (related to Petty’s “Runaway”??), and I think back to the Barry-Shin(i)n(g) 03 post and the close proximity of Barry, Minnesota with a Stanley Field airstrip.

Danny’s dart also seems to have transformed into a cigarette, losing its red tail in the process. A wiff of smoke emerging from the point opposite Jack gives the illusion that he’s smoking this “cig”. I believe this particular drug vice is substituting for the Jack Daniels drink that Jack actually partakes of at this bar, as poured by Lloyd the bartenter. Smoking a cigarette equates with drinking the Jack Daniels in a glass.

*But*, in reference to the next and last part of the 4 part Collage 04, the cigarette also infers a lighted fuse that, when burned down, will *explode* Jack and also his bartender, his inverted VW heading right for him, and even Danny’s arm holding the cigarette/fuse.

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January 19, 2014 · 8:28 am

Steptoe Series 02

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bb:

Hucka D., I may call on your help tonight. The Steptoe series is a tough one to analyze.

Hucka D.:

Not really. So in Collage 03 (above) we have the actual start of The Shining film depicted. Jack’s yellow Volkswagen is heading up the Going to the Sun Road in Montana — that’s where it’s shot. But the road has been replaced by the dirt road to Stipe Cemetery in Washington state.

bb:

I could have said that!

Hucka D.:

Yes but you didn’t. And now I’m here. So just listen [ basically]. Baker Bloch is front center in the collage. The collage is separated into 2 basic parts, the left side being the entrance to the Stipe Cemetery, and the right the field to its immediate west. There we have a mashup of Jack’s body with Hallorann’s, the African-American person he murdered in the movie (but didn’t in the source novel). And also Danny, don’t you think? That’s Danny’s head that Jack is holding, in effect.

bb:

It’s not but it is.

Hucka D.:

Yes. So this mashup of figures deals with all the confusions of The Shining, and Jack as abusing Danny, and Hallorann and Danny’s special shine bonding — an arm appears like a foot. It’s all the confusions of The Shining in one composite. A kind of mess, in a manner. The image started as just Hallorann lying in this field. Then he acquires Jack’s head, and Danny’s head along with it. Danny’s arm subs for one of Hallorann’s legs. It speaks of the intertwined destiny of these 3 characters: Jack is bound to axed Hallorann to death, and Danny is bound to then kill Jack in the maze. It’s all set up beforehand, like a play… like a movie of course. So the right hand side is all this, and the left hand side is the beginning of the movie, all lean and clean and cleared of confusion. Do you know what this is, then?

bb:

It’s the beginning of Carrcass-10, the trimmed down version of the film. Clean and lean, or cleaner and leaner.

Hucka D.:

Yes. It’s the same start as the movie visually — Jack Torrance’s yellow bug driving through the huge mountains to the lodge. But it’s — what do you call them?

bb:

What?

Hucka D.:

The variant band that plays here.

bb:

Oh. Tom’s Petty High. That’s Tom Petty’s variant band.

Hucka D.:

So it’s playing here instead. Just let, as you said I believe, the first of the music fall on the first frame of the film, where we see little Wild Goose Island. So cute. So mirrored. So the yellow bug accompanied by Tom’s Petty Band soundtrack now, a new, different music — not better…

bb:

No. Just different. Variant.

Hucka D.:

Yes. That now takes us up to the lodge and Jack’s interview. In your Carrcass-10, you still have part of the interview, the crucial part describing the past axe murders several years back in the hotel. Then you have the start of Story Room.

bb:

So the yellow ball Danny finds in the cemetery is the same as his father’s yellow VW bug.

Hucka D.:

Yes. A reinterpretation. A repurposing.

bb:

It’s the yellow bug at the hotel, which is the same as this cemetery, going back to the fact that the hotel was built on an Indian burial ground, perhaps.

Hucka D.:

The cemetery is the hotel. And that’s where we first pick up the Shining-Steptoe resonance.

bb:

So getting back to Collage 03, we have golfer Tom Kite, who is probably still playing on the senior circuit but who was more famous back in the 80s, I suppose.

Hucka D.:

About the same time as The Shining movie, yes.

bb:

He’s center as well, directly in front of Baker Bloch. He’s swinging a club. There’s an odd(er) object in the sky, an “i” shape. Perhaps the golf ball he hits is represented by this.

Hucka D.:

Yes. The golf ball is light.

bb:

Hmm.

Hucka D.:

We should… go ahead. You go.

bb:

We should probably state that McConnell Cemetery on the sign behind him is the same as Stipe Cemetery. Another variant name?

Hucka D.:

Perhaps. So another Tom — and the Kite part of his name refers to the expression, “high as a kite”. This has to do, then, with Tom’s Petty High again. The song is a drug song. Tom was flying in the car, singing his little Runaway Beach song.

bb (ignoring wrong title of song):

So Tom and the car are inextricably tied together. The golf ball or whatever that is in the sky, is high. The scene on the right, Hucka D., may represent the past of Jack, Danny, and Hallorann, before the events of The Shining movie take place. Jack and Danny already have a history in Boulder and before. Hallorann’s been shining since he was a kid. Jack himself could make a clean start as winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel. It was a beautiful day and the sun shone down. Everything is flying, clean, different. He’s going to the sun.

Hucka D.:

Good. So we have a new start. Old problems left behind, hopefully. The “i” points up instead of down. But the right part of this collage also speaks of the inevitable doom that lays ahead. Jack-Danny-Hallorann, all bound up with each other in the end. So he’s carrying all this with him, like an impossibly large amount of luggage packed in this little car.

bb:

Baker Bloch is attached to the car because it is his Carrcass-10, through me his user.

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January 16, 2014 · 3:18 am

Steptoe

Links/photos:

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=131968

Hand01

Hand02

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Experiments w/ a Bullsear (Test continued)

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January 15, 2014 · 5:13 am

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January 14, 2014 · 1:04 pm

January 13, 2014 · 11:07 pm

Stipe

http://celebritycemetery.blogspot.com/

AIDS-ey REM singer Michael Stipe has always looked a bit peaky, but is it enough to shove him through the door of life down into the deep, dark wine cellar of death? Let’s wait and see, eh?

Predictor: Alistair Reid, Brighton
Mortality Status: Alive

Stipe Cemetery.

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Postcard from Steptoe

Story Room consists of 3 individuals who don the geometric shapes sphere, tetrahedron and cube to mask their true identities. Sometimes lead singer Steptoe Butte is from Whitman County, Washington.

From the Uncyclopedia entry on Steptoe Butte:

“He was a striking-looking guy and he also bought weird records, which not everyone in the store did”, collaborator Pete StarBuck recalled. The two became friends and eventually decided to form a band.[1] StarBuck and Steptoe started writing music together;[2] at the time Steptoe also spent time in a local group named Raid.[3] The pair were soon joined by Bill Mills and Mike Berry and named themselves Murmur, a name Steptoe selected at random from the dictionary.[4]

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“Hucka D., clarify for me something. Wouldn’t Steptoe be the blue figure here?”

Hucka D.:

Sometimes.

bb:

Is he the yellow figure as well?

Hucka D.:

No.

bb:

The red figure is the boss.

Hucka D.:

That’s Story Room.

bb:

I’m confused. I thought the name of the band was, or is, Story Room.

Hucka D.:

It is. (pause)

bb:

Where does Tom’s Petty High fit in[ here]?

Hucka D.:

Yellow. Lemon yellow.

bb:

Each… sorry.

Hucka D.:

Each rule over their portions of The Shining that come before or after. So Tom’s Petty High rules the psychiatrist-Danny scene. What have you renamed that recently?

bb:

The Story Room. Oh, wait. That’s — I know what you’re talking about now — that’s the Bear Pillow Scene, with all the little blips and sparkles, at least a handful that seem to mean something.

Hucka D.:

Sorry as well: actually Story Room rules that scene. So that’s why you have the word “strange” highlighted spoken by the doctor, and then the Duck just afterwards. The duck is both the lemon colored VW that protagonist [sic?] Jack drives to the Overlook Hotel to start the movie, and also Duck, WV, then. The presence of The Duck demonstrates the rule of Story Room, see.

bb:

Let’s see.

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Hucka D.:

Story Room had a lot of fun with that room.

bb:

Isn’t Story Room, though, the room in the exact center of the Shining with all the rainbow colors, Hucka? Rainbow man Hallorann lies in the middle. Soon to shine. [no answer]

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January 13, 2014 · 10:38 am

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Twins

http://www.sailblogs.com/member/blessedlady/?xjMsgID=275816

This is a favorite place of mine. I’m sure that some people don’t even know it’s hidden in the depths of Port Ludlow. The entrance is between two small islands called The Twins that open onto a bay about the size of Quest Stadium. Anchorable depths provide for two, maybe three boats, but I was there alone. The dense woods on the steep shores are only moderately punctuated by the gardening of the homes that line the bay, so it’s still a relatively idyllic setting.

Another Dart besides 3 already blog recorded (Washington). Historical, however:

Matching Oklahoma/Texas set (reversed from above):

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December 20, 2013 · 1:53 pm

December 20, 2013 · 7:17 am

Dart Taboo

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

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).

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.

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.

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???