Friday, July 12, 2024

Hatched by a monkey

My dream about an unpublished red book titled Unhenned has been interpreted by William Wright as being about Israel -- citing Jesus' statements in the Bible and Book of Mormon about gathering Israel "as a hen gathereth her chickens" and Daymon "Doug" Smith's reference to the history of Israel as a book with "red chapters."

This morning I was in my study, and it occurred to me to scan my shelves for red books. The Eustace Diamonds . . . The Seven Sins of Memory . . . The Uninscribed . . . ah, The Circle by David Eggers! The title of the book reinforces the "egg" in his name, and an egg is the sort of thing that might be described as "unhenned" -- that is, without a hen to sit on it and incubate it.

Most of my books are in cabinets with glass doors, but two small shelves are behind opaque doors. I don't usually keep books on those shelves, but today I thought I'd better look inside just in case there were any more red books hiding there. And there, sure enough, I found a bright red three-ring binder containing selections from the Scarlet Notebook, a collection of Tychonievich juvenilia. The full Scarlet Notebook (still so called for historical reasons) is currently in a massive white binder in America somewhere, but I have PDF scans of the whole thing. As soon as I saw the red binder on my shelf, I remembered that among its contents is a little fragment called "Hatched by a Monkey," written by one of my brothers as a child. It didn't make the cut for inclusion in the small red binder in Taiwan, but I looked it up in the PDF. Here it is in its entirety:

Desnor wondered, as he often did, why he had to be the one who was hatched by a monkey! His long, flexible tail still hurt from his last entry into the chicken-house. The other roosters had nearly murdered him, but he had escaped, with the helpy of his two extra lages and usable wings.

The only person who really cared about him was Henry. Tomorrow, they were going to run away. Henry was an orphan birth, trying to survive until he was old enough to get a real job, not just assistant chicken-keeper.

Suddenly, all the chickens started to squawk and run around, flapping their wings and causing a general ruckus. Then Desnor saw the reason: The butcher was coming, equipped with a large axe and a miniature crossbow.

Immediately, Desnor flew down, opened the gate, and flew into the top of a pine tree.

Amongst all the mess of chickens, the butcher dropped his weapons and tried to get all the chickens in the pen at the same time!

Desnor flew down and took the crossbow and quarrels onto the roof, where he stayed.

When the butcher saw this, he yelled, "Chicken's out!" so loud that the shutters rattled.

This lines up with the dream pretty neatly. It's from an unpublished book with a red cover, and it's about a creature that apparently hatched from an "unhenned" chicken egg that was incubated by a monkey.

In the context of William Wright's interpretation -- that "unhenned" refers to the House of Israel, with the absent hen being the rejected Jesus Christ -- the idea of being "hatched by a monkey" made me think of the prophecy that "the kings of the Gentiles shall be nursing fathers unto [Israel], and their queens shall become nursing mothers" (2 Ne. 10:9) -- i.e., that the Gentiles will raise Israel in the absence of the father hen. Gentiles essentially means "barbarians," of which monkeys or apes would be a natural symbol.

Desnor is an anagram of Red Son, which came up in my 2020 post "Robin Hood."

1 comment:

Ra1119bee said...


William,

and speaking of moon-keys:

Recall my many comments a few weeks ago about the movie Dawn of the
Planet of the Apes, the song The Weight and the date of July 11.

July 11 was not only the date the movie was released ( July 11, 2014 )
but July 11 2024 was supposed to be the date that Donald Trump
was said to be sentenced.
Of course that date has been changed.

What's interesting however, is yesterday (July 11) it appears
that the fireworks are really starting
to be ignited. Very odd events are beginning to unfold
on the World Stage, especially here in the US.

I'm sure you are aware of the historic changes on the World Stage,
especially the so called Presidental El-ection here in the US.

Isn't it interesting that the 'Obamas' are back in the limelight?
Might want to give a look at the Dec 23 movie Leave the World Behind
on Netflix, NOW on YouTube ( full movie ). Chockfull of symbolism.

Remember I commented about my perspective about this in Dec after
the movie was released.
The Obama's production company, Higher Ground not only helped bankroll
this movie, but it was reported that Barack served as advisor.
Isn't That interesting since this movie is about a future Global Armageddon
type of events having to do with technology.

Recall my many predictions about a Black Swan (perhaps several) event(s).
If not before the 'election', then I predict by the end of the year.
I don't think we've seen the last of the Obama(s).

We live in VERY interesting times, no?

*** and speaking of JULY11 and monkey business, did you see this?
**** ( note the red and yellow background of this news station).
Joe Biden makes brutal Putin blunder at NATO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C4OLjFh0jc

**** Note the movie poster and July 11. Note the Golden Gate Bridge
in the background.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_of_the_Planet_of_the_Apes

Leave the World Behind full movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8lJFakqGQg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_Ground_Productions

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