Sunday, June 8, 2025
From the Narr --
Thanks to autocomplete, when I want to visit my own blog, I'm in the habit of just typing the first few letters of the URL and pressing Enter. Today, for some reason, autocomplete didn't kick in, and I ended up searching for the string narr. It turns out it means something in German:
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Narr, or I guess Nar, is also an Elvish word which can mean both Fire and Story (literally "to tell", as in a tale to tell), as one potential additional meaning to add to The Fool.
Just comparing notes on my end, the Panda theme continued relentlessly yesterday. We took a couple of our kids for errands, with one stop at the Mall of America. While there, my youngest son wanted to go to the giant Lego store they have. It was busy enough where they had a line going around the side of the story to wait to go in. The store has little windows or cases built into the side where the line runs that display various lego sets and models. As we got to our place in line, I looked to the window immediately next to me. In it was a Panda eating Bamboo, just looking right at me.
Later, we needed to figure out where to go for lunch. My youngest son said he really wanted Chinese food. My wife and I agreed that we have never heard him ask for that - I don't think he even likes it, but yesterday that is what he wanted. He got outranked, though, and it was decided we would go get tacos as Taco Libre. He was bummed.
To his pleasant surprise, however, as we pulled into Taco Libre we saw that right next door was another restaurant: Panda Express. So he got to go next door and get his Chinese food after all (which he proceeded to not eat, claiming he was full, but it may be that he remembered he didn't like Chinese food that much after all...).
The concept of a Railroad has come up quite a bit recently, and it would later strike me that Panda Express could be seen as the name of a railroad - like the Orient Express or something like that ... a high-speed train.
Also interesting to me, is that the Panda Express logo involves a Panda within a red circle. A Red Stone - the one to "Play for Patrick"?
https://brandlogos.net/panda-express-icon-107204.html
And for bonus points going back to the Panda-Lego incident, I noted that Lego is also a Latin word that means a whole lot of interesting things in this context. "Gather, collect, choose, select", as one, "extract, remove, take out" as nother; but also "plunder, steal, take to oneself unjustly". It is a loaded word. Check it out and scroll down to the Latin meanings:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lego
Of course, Lego the company isn't based on Latin, but Dutch, from the phrase "Leg Godt", which means "play well".
Given the recent Moby Dick-Ahab symbolism, and the Deer representing Pharazon in my dream with the gimpy leg, I also thought it was interesting to see such prominent mention of a Leg.
Lego also generally fit the recent Minecraft mention, given both platforms involve building things with blocks/ bricks.
Leo Moracchioli, whose Chinese T-shirt you asked about, has LEGO tattooed across his knuckles.
The most common Latin meaning of “lego,” the only one I had known before reading your list, is “I read.”
Good call on the Leo LEGO tattoo.
I saw that definition of "I read" for Lego as well - I was going to list it, but figured I would just point you to the laundry list of meanings on the wiki page. Seems like a relevant meaning for someone who dreams of books.
The bamboo connection continued to work on me, particularly in the context of that LEGO Panda eating that bamboo, and the Bamboo Garden/ Bamboo Lounge.
I always thought of bamboo as a type of tree, shrub, or something like that. Apparently, it is a type of grass, which was surprise for me to see.
This brought to mind Patrick and his boxes of cereal. Cereal is a reference to grains, like Wheat. Like bamboo, wheat and other cereal grains are grasses. To continue my surprise, bamboo and wheat are even in the same grass family - Poaceae. It seems all cereal grasses are in this family.
This seemed to me to be a fairly strong tie to "Play for Patrick", the number 96 theme, and the link I had explored earlier to the need for Patrick to eat those boxes of cereal... just like a Panda eating bamboo.
Cf. my story about cows (another black and white animal) having to eat a type of oversized grass (which is what bamboo is) to make the straight paths passable again.
https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2025/05/raising-atlantis.html
That seems like a pretty good connection to me.
I've shared a few times, but in my 2020 words there was mention of "Balta" in connection with a cow: "A cow that moos when it's time to be milked". We had connected Balta with Balthazar, at one point, and to Pharazon, as well as to cereal due to the term "Sheave" being attached to that name/ word Balta. Sheave being a term in which grass and grain (I guess including bamboo?) is gathered in bundles.
The Cow Tools dancers in your dream are perhaps interesting in this context.
A "Tool" when used to describe a person can mean "a person used by another for his own ends", which is exactly what Sauron did with Pharazon and the Numenoreans, including the "14" of Ingwe's House apparently born as Numenoreans. It also directly connects with the concept of a Fool. The Britannica dictionary, in addition to the above sense, also has this for a Tool: "A foolish person who can easily be used or tricked by others".
We Aussies tend to say "no" as "nah" (close enough to "narr"), often extending it into "yeah, nah", and "yes" gets similar treatment -- introducing ambiguity to what should be simple black-and-white words. Video related demonstrates both from 1:34. (My own accent is slightly clipped in comparison but foreigners I've talked to haven't noticed, taking it favorably anyway.) In addition, this reminds me of a joke I've always liked.
youtube.com/watch?v=s1ypSjwWrv8
jokesoftheday.net/joke/201002278
On a related note, that word "Berkeley Hunt" rhymes with (as I mentioned privately) is popular with Aussie bogans, and not only in a negative sense.
english.stackexchange.com/questions/341262/popular-usage-of-cnt-as-a-reference-to-a-mate (do I need to warn for language? it's inherent!)
The ties between Minecraft and Lego are stronger than you think. Officially-licenced Lego has existed since 2012, about six and a half months after the game hit its 1.0 release (sheesh, way earlier than I expected!). The below link also says Minecraft's devs, Mojang, attempted a game in collaboration with Lego, and Lego had briefly considered buying out Mojang (now owned by Micro$oft).
minecraft.wiki/w/LEGO_Minecraft
I recently gifted my Mum with a "Ninja" air fryer, so one trivia item on that page sparked curiosity towards another Lego series (toys and media) called Ninjago. The main character is a "legendary Green Ninja" who temporarily becomes Golden. One of his teammates wears grey/blue and is named with the same word as a Japanese onomatopoeia for a cat's meow.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Ninjago
ninjago.fandom.com/wiki/Lloyd
ninjago.fandom.com/wiki/Nya
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