I heard someone coming up the stairs, so I hid. I closed the library door almost completely (leaving it slightly ajar because I didn't want the latch to make a sound) and stood against the wall in a place where, when the door opened, I would be hidden behind the door.
The person who had been coming up the stairs arrived and kicked open the door. As soon as he had walked into the room, I burst out from behind the door, ran out the room, and started going down the stairs two at a time -- then four at a time, and then I realized that I could just leap down a whole flight of stairs in a single bound and still land gently, for this was now one of those low-gravity "giant stride" dreams about which I have written before. Using this method, I easily reached the first floor miles ahead of my pursuer. I stood at the foot of the stairs and looked up, feeling rather pleased with myself, and then woke up.
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In the morning, I checked my comments and found a new one on "Gracehopers and Ants in the library":
This syncs with Vox Day's AI Library story contest. His 4th story in the style of Chuck Dixon, "The library was supposed to be closed. But Frank Castle didn’t give a damn about hours of operation.He kicked in the side door, the wood splintering under his boot." Frank Castle got it, just like the ants.
I have been giving Vox's recent AI cringefest a very wide berth, but with the reference to kicking in a library door, my curiosity got the better of me, and I looked it up. After kicking in the door, Frank Castle (a Marvel character, a vigilante antihero) goes to the third floor and executes a 16-year-old boy.
Castle shot him twice in the chest. The kid crumpled, knocking over a shelf of Dickens.Back downstairs, the Librarian hadn’t moved."He return the book?" Castle asked.The old man slid a leather-bound volume across the desk. "Moby-Dick. Overdue. By thirty years."Castle tucked it under his arm. The girl’s name was still scribbled inside the cover in childish cursive. Maria.He walked out. The door swung shut behind him, the lock clicking like a hammer cocking.
Moby-Dick and Maria are possibly synchronistically relevant. The latter is a link to Maria Shriver, discussed in "Mighty in writing." Moby-Dick is a link to something from Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice, a poem of his addressed to "The Ogre," or the White woman:
I hate youBecause you're white.Your white meatIs nightmare food.White isThe skin of EvilYou're my Moby Dick,White Witch,Symbol of the rope and hanging tree,Of the burning cross.
(This is the second stanza. The first begins "I love you / Because you're white." The third, the Hegelian synthesis, is written not in words but in deeds: I rape you because you're white.)
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I then checked Leo's blog, where I found a new post recounting a dream in which Bill expresses the hope that I am "more George than Jones." Leo has his own interpretation of this, based on the etymology of George and on two aspects of the character of country singer George Jones, but my own associations were different: George made me think of my uncle's theory that I am the reincarnation of St. George, the legendary dragon-slayer. (He first decided that Spenser had been George, and then later that I had been Spenser.) It also made me think of some of my recent "ogre" posts, with the typo orge (second element in George) repeatedly appearing in the comments. As for Jones, it's an extremely common name with many possible associations, but the first thing I thought of was Bob Dylan's song "Ballad of a Thin Man," with its repeated line, "Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is / Do you, Mr. Jones?" Mr. Jones is the personification of the clueless square.
Why is it called "Ballad of a Thin Man"? I'm not sure. There's no reference to thinness in the lyrics. In "Eldridge vs. The Ogre," though, I recently discussed two thin men: H. P. Lovecraft and the Thin White Duke, the latter being described as "an ogre" by Bowie.
Thinking about this "thin man" made me think of a famous anagram:
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." -- Neil A. ArmstrongA thin man ran; makes a large stride; left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!
This syncs with my dream, in which I ran in large strides and giant leaps, as if in a low-gravity setting like the Moon or Mars, making me the "thin man." I'm not normally particularly thin (maybe by American standards!), but I've done a few extended fasts this Lent, and more than once I've seen myself in the mirror and thought,
Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look;He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
On the road this morning, I passed a license plate that said RAN 5555 -- the repeated number serving to draw my attention to the word ran. A thin man ran.
I recently connected the ants getting in the library with "What if Dot got in the Green Door?" Dot, a cat, gets in the door and into the library of Herbert Hoover Elementary School. What happens next?
Herodotus's gold-mining ants were "the color of a cat" -- meaning brown, like Dot. There's also a "cat" reference in one of Dylan's earliest explanations of "Ballad of a Thin Man":
He's a real person. You know him, but not by that name... I saw him come into the room one night and he looked like a camel. He proceeded to put his eyes in his pocket. I asked this guy who he was and he said, "That's Mr. Jones." Then I asked this cat, "Doesn't he do anything but put his eyes in his pocket?" And he told me, "He puts his nose on the ground." It's all there, it's a true story.
8 comments:
Concerning Maria and her overdue book, let us not forget Owings (hear a plural noun)--it is surely at least one of her owings. Does she need to be shriven, i.e. freed of her debt(s)? A thirty-year overdue book debt might add up to something.
"with the typo orge (second element in George)"
Upon reading this, I definitely noted that I hadn't heard that particular expression used before in reference to what I might call a phonetic unit, vz. the "element" in "second element". Just minutes after reading your post, I found myself reading another blogger's post on the etymology of the word Walden, when I came across the following:
"There is a division of opinion concerning the significance of walh (plural walas, genitive singular wales, genitive plural wala) in place-names. In written Old English the word has two meanings, 'Welshman' and 'serf'. It is the former meaning which has survived in modern English, Wales being the plural, and Welsh the derivative adjective. The plural, walas, is also the second element in the name Cornwall."
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2007/12/more-on-etymology-of-walden.html
Can't help but feel that the repetition of "second element" in reference to phonetic units in the span of a quarter-hour or so is significant. I'm struck by the mention of Wales over against Moby Dick, the white whale. Also, George the patron saint of England over against Wales, a rivalrous satellite of England. (That you are the reincarnation of St. George yet also a modern devotee of Joan of Arc, England's paradigmatic enemy, is also interesting.)
Good links, Wade.
Interesting you should bring up Joan. In a song, my uncle juxtaposes “a knight and a dragon and a damsel in distress” (referring to the legend of St. George) with a “French maid who wears an iron dress.”
https://youtu.be/L0MMkdxh3jM
Revisiting that AI slop post of Vox’s, I see it even mentions that “Castle took the stairs two at a time,” though he was going upstairs rather than down.
William,
Part 1 of 2
In dream interpretation 'walking down/falling down/
being pushed down etc. have a much different symbolic
meaning than levitating/ going up/walking up etc.
Descending down is symbolic of that which is hidden in
the darkness much like a basement. It denotes the unknown
and/or the past. Think of a dark basement. We store things
in a basement that has meaning to us, but in the present tense
we don't need... OR.... we don't think we need in our 'house'.
Running is different than walking because running
denotes quickness ( like the wing deity Mercury).
In your dream running down could mean
that something important is very urgent
and something you need to retrieve from your basement/darkness/black/shadow.
Fear is associated with falling down( as opposed to walking
or running down) Falling down or being
pushed down means we have lost control .
If you've read my comments on your post: Mighty in Writing,
you'll recall my perspective about how I associated
Maria (Shriver) with the Hebrew Miriam which Miriam
meaning bitter sea. It's Mary who 'births us' into
the bitter sea. In birth we descend down head first
and we are pulled, having no control of our destiny.
In the Netflix series 1899 ( I reposted the clip below)
note that the passengers who are jumping ship, can't
be stopped. They are being pulled. Also in the 1899
clip and the trailer I linked, note all the darkness.
The ship is going is sink like the other ship Prometheus
before it.
It's always the darkest before the storm.
Also note that much like a bus, or train or airplane,
a ship is symbolic of the collective not the individual
and in dream work it denotes something that is happening
or will happen which we have no control over.
Recall I shared that in my 2014 Moon River dream,
I was on a bus.
The recent aviation disasters of
airplanes falling down from the sky' ( especially
American Airlines and Delta) is not a coincidence IMHO.
America's lofty position in the World is Falling.
I believe that we are on the precipice of
the Fall of the American Empire.
Certainly the fall of the American dollar.
I think that all of these recent airplanes falling down
is a hidden message from those who know.. to those...
who also know its meaning.
If you haven't read my comments on Mighty Wrighty
please do and please take a look at the 1899 links.
Being a boomer the first thing that I thought , while reading
your post about you running down the stairs
is the 1967 movie Up the Down Staircase. ( see links )
In the movie the protagonist Sylvia Barrett ( played by Sandy Dennis )
is a teacher in an inner city high school where most of the students
are troubled or disadvantage.
In the clip below note the 'diverse collective' of the student body
especially many Black people.
In etymology the name Sylvia means a forest or woods.
Here's a copy and paste I found interesting: ( note the connection
to Rhea Silvia mother of Romulus and Remus.
Recall my recent comment about
my connection with wolves.
"The name Sylvia, of Latin origin,
means "of the forest" or "woods,"
connecting it to the natural world and mythology,
with figures like Rhea Silvia,
mother of Romulus and Remus, and Silvanus,
the Roman deity of woods,
associated with it.."
The Roman deity Silvia is Mars' consort.
There's the MAR connection again.
William
Part 2
Note in one of the scenes of the clip below a student
walks into Sylvia Barrett's class and asks if the
room is number 322.
Recall my many comments about symbolic significance of the
numbers 11, 22, 33, 44, 55 etc.
They are all master numbers.
My birthyear is 1955. The Penta means ; change.
In your post you wrote of seeing a license plate
with the number RAN-5555.
5 is the number of change.
Running means urgency.
Both numbers 11 and 22 are very prevalent in cinema.
Also 3 2 2 is the number of Skull and Bones.
In the clip note the narrator speaks of falling
in love with a monster. Given the recent ogre syncs
I found that interesting.
( Do note that I haven't seen Up the Down Staircase
well over 30 years or so )
And speaking of Dickens, check out the clip
of a scene regarding Charles Dickens,
A Tale of Two Cities.
Recall my many comments about the symbolic significant
of the duality/ Twins. Twin Towers, Twin Gates.
And since you made mention of the name George
note that the George Floyd PSYOP, ignited
in Minneapolis -St. Paul The Twin Cities.
Recall my many comments about the name George
meaning The Earth( Geo) tiller.
In regards to your uncle making mention of you being St. George
maybe the hidden 'message' as far as your syncs
is to remind you that you are an Earth Tiller.
You till rich ( dark/black ) soil so as to plant new seeds,
which is what teachers do, no?
The Nigredo is the beginning of the Alchemical Transformation
which is why Black people were used for the Alchemical
Experiment we now know as America.
The soil of new land is black.
Also in the Up the Down Staircase clip ( Twin Cities)
at the end, note the young girl is choosing to jump
out the window, very similar to the passengers in
the series 1899 choosing to jump off the ship.
Note that the Titanic had 2 sister ships ( see link )
Everything is duality and connected.
The Passenger Jump off From the Ship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZiLP8jyLO8&t=14s
Up the Down Staircase (1967) Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySSIPnY48Ac
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_the_Down_Staircase_(film)
Up the Down Staircase - A Tale of Two Cities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vuQIAiYG6U
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhea_Silvia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic-class_ocean_liner
Here's a counterpoint to Leo and Bill's thoughts.
At first I had nothing for George, but Jones brought to mind a certain famed archaeologist. Searching for "Indiana Jones + George" pointed me to a major character in the fourth Indy movie.
https://indianajones.fandom.com/wiki/George_McHale
It seems appropriate that this George was a spy. In a general sense, to spy is to notice things; in the secret agent sense, spies report what they notice, and might not get a chance or be allowed to work with that info themselves (thinking real life scenarios here). Compare that with an archaeologist like Jones: basically digging things up and analysing them.
In a way, William, that's how I see this situation - you as sync-reporter, Bill as story-digger, and I don't think he's giving you enough credit. Showing how syncs work? All that bouncing off each other? More eyes (potential and actual, me included) on that story than if you hadn't been involved? You might simply be reporting, but that doesn't mean it's not leading to something, or that no-one else can work with the material. (I can't speak for anyone else, but you've aided me more than you realise.)
Wandering Gondola,
I agree with you. I previously commented that maybe
William is a George, an Earth Tiller who tills the soil
so as to plant new seed, which is what teachers do.
Being a scribe also requires detail writing.
Wiki describe a scribe as a person who serves
as a professional copyist
which means, at lest to me, a scribe is not the author.
The author creates the story and knows the ending.
The author sees the big picture, the scribe writes the details.
Both scribe and author are intertwined however,
different but same. Without the scribe
the author's story is never told.
However and IMO the responsibility of the scribe
is very significant (even more so than the author)
because, much like the printing press,
and the modern day internet, what's written is not necessarily
truth, because it's the victor who writes the history or
dictates the history to the scribe.
I believe that it's the responsibility of the scribe ,
much like a journalist to offer different perspectives.
However we know that has not
always been the case.
I found this interesting in the Scribe wiki page
and somewhat makes my point:
Copy and paste: ( asterisk's mine)
"The Sumerians developed one of the earliest writing systems
(the Cuneiform), the first body of written literature,
and an extensive scribal profession to further these activities.
"The body of knowledge that scribes possessed
belonged to an***** elite**** urban culture,
and few had access to it."
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The greatest responsibility however and IMHO,
lies on the reader to use their critical thinking skills
and to research from a vast spectrum
of ideologies. It's the scribes who makes that vast spectrum
possible..
In the metaphysical sense, I think that because William
has been given these vast amount of synchronicity experiences
there is a reason for it.
The syncs may OR may not be for him alone however.
IMO If someone is given a gift ( especially a metaphysical one)
it's that person's responsibility to send it out so as to pay it forward
(the good, the bad and the ugly and by ugly I mean alternative
and different than the ''official' narrative) as someone
else may need to hear or read the message.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribe
WG, that’s how I see it, too. It’s something like St. Paul’s concept that some have the gift of tongues and others the gift of interpretation, and that they must work together if anyone is to be edified.
“Who is as blind as my servant? or as deaf as my messenger that I sent?”
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