Early this morning, I was checking comments in that strange little coffee shop that proclaims coffee "a physical and psychological baptism" and decorates its walls with a framed photo of the Empire State Building and with the words of Victor Hugo, Emily Dickinson, and the Wickedest Man in the World.
I read a new comment by Bill on "The star of Kaos," which brought up Pharazon (in connection with Jeff Goldblum and the "golden flower") and also Jeff Bezos and Amazon. I left this reply:
For an extra Pharazon link, there's a Zhang Yimou film known in English as "Curse of the Golden Flower," but the original Chinese title refers not to a flower but to being "entirety clad in golden armor."Just as I typed that, I heard the line "Stranger says he'll regret his armor" in the background music ("A Place Like Home" by Birgersson Lundberg).
I thought this was Pharazonic because in Daymon's books, Pharazon is called a "golden guest," and it is said that "In gold finery he covered his nakedness." There is no explicit mention of golden armor, but I figured that since Pharazon's was a military voyage, golden armor would have been part of his "finery." The song mentions an armored "stranger," and Etymonline gives the etymological meaning of guest as "an accidental guest, a chance comer, a stranger."
Bill's mention of Amazon also prompted the thought that Chow Yun Fat as a glaring monarch with a black mustache and graying beard bears a certain resemblance to Pharazon as depicted in the acclaimed Amazon series We Wuz Rangs.
Yesterday's post "American brownshoe" reported a dream in which I, and then later also a man in a comic book on a 4chan post, got into the back of a gray Plymouth Voyager van. I'm not really the type to notice the make or model of cars, but in the dream I was very clear that it was a Voyager. All of the comments on the 4chan post were about the man's shoes: brown leather shoes with white rubber soles, which I said looked, except for the color scheme, like Doc Martens 1491s. I don't know the names of specific shoes, either. I had thought they looked like the Doc Martens shoes that were popular among Mormon missionaries back when I was one (and which we were allowed to wear only on condition that we blacked out the distinctive yellow stitching with a magic marker), and only after an Internet search did I know that they were called 1491s.
I would have bought them just for sync reasons, just as I tried to buy a pair of blue wingtips after dreaming of them in 2023 ("Crystal Blue Perseude Shoes"), but again they didn't have my size. (Taiwanese people have small feet.) I ended up not buying anything at all.
Immediately after this abortive shoe-shopping mission, I got lunch. The place I had intended to go to was unexpectedly closed, so I went to this other place nearby. On the wall of the restaurant was this poster for an event that took place in November of last year.
It says DREAM in big letters, and superimposed over that is the word VOYAGER, in the same light shade of gray as the Plymouth Voyager in my dream.
Later I got to thinking about 1491. Hadn't that number come up on this blog before? I searched for it and found "Fire and ice, first syncs, 1491, and the Urim and Thummim" (January 16), where 1491 refers to the year before Columbus's voyage west (paralleling Pharazon's). The post includes this icon of St. Hubbins, mentioned in This Is Spinal Tap, holding two examples of the "quality footwear" of which he is the patron: a brown leather shoe and a white sneaker with a white rubber sole. The shoes in my dream were a combination of these two, and the saint's single brown shoe is a link to the word "brownshoe" used in the dream.
In a comment on that post, Bill brings up the fact that Christopher Guest appears in Spinal Tap and ties him to Pharazon, to which I reply that a further link is the description of Pharazon as a "golden guest" in Daymon's books. Bill also brings up Roy Jay as a Pharazonic figure, noting among other things the "Black Arrows" on his prison uniform. (Black arrows have recently come up again in connection with the Star of Chaos symbol.)
Remembering that Christopher Guest is actually Lord Haden-Guest, I decided to look up the etymology of the other half of his surname. It is (of course) Gaelic and means "clothes, armor." Recall that the "golden armor" link at the beginning of this post was based on the assumption that Pharazon's "finery" (a word that normally means clothes) included armor.
















