A long-running theme on this blog, and formerly on Bill's, is that Humpty Dumpty is a symbol of Pharazon, the last king of Numenor, who led Tolkien's equivalent of the ill-fated attack on Athens.
In "Some say the world will end in fire," the song sung by the Background Brethren included the line "Pray for Satan's salvation," and I noted that this line came from artist and professional atheist Normal Bob Smith, someone I haven't thought about in a very long time. Today, wondering if he was still around, I looked up his website. I was surprised to discover that one of the products he is selling is a booklet called Humpty Dumpty: The True Story of Neptune's Messiah. There's really nothing about Neptune or Messiahs in it -- it's just the story of Humpty Dumpty, illustrated in Normal Bob's signature grotesque style -- but the title is certainly synchronistically interesting. Although Robert Graves would object to the equation, Neptune is generally considered to be the Roman name for Poseidon.
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