Cora Ylang-Ylang, I gathered from skimming the next several pages, was the pen name of an extremely prolific author of chick lit, each of whose novels included a reference to a particular day of the week in the title. Two examples I remember were Deuce Day (referencing Tuesday) and O Friday, My Friday! The authors reported the finding that the Tuesday novels focused more on female characters and the Friday novels on male ones, and they took this as confirmation of whatever hypothesis they were testing. It was supposed to be funny and cool that the “experiment” had taken that particular form.
Another chapter was about which forms of exercise were most effective and was illustrated with some simple line drawings of what looked like Pilates techniques.
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The two days you highlight are interesting.
First, for their gender inversion of the characters those names those dates are named after. Tuesday is named after male Gods like Tiu and Mars, yet the novels focused on female characters. Conversely, Friday is named after the Goddess Venus (Frigga), and the characters were skewed male.
Second, for those Gods/ Goddesses themselves and previous ties to them, and the associated days.
As for the titles themselves, the Friday title seems to be a reference Walt Whitman as well, unless you had another idea. It would also possibly carry on with the Cassius-Caesar theme, since "O Captain! My Captain!" was written about another assassination of a ruler or president, in this case Abraham Lincoln. In continuing with that potential theme, I also noted that Friday is the traditional day in which the death of Jesus is recognized (Good Friday).
As for the author's name, a few interesting symbols there. Cora Ylang-Ylang would seem to encapsulate some familiar symbols as a Tree and Yellow Flowers (Ylang-Ylang seems to be a yellow flowered tree), a Maiden (the meaning of Cora), and Tirion (Kor/ Cor is one name for Tirion/ Jerusalem). That would all make sense, I think. You probably had additional ideas, but that was my initial reaction.
The fact that the writer was also female has me thinking that this relates to the Being I've guessed is "the Jew" and the Book of the Lamb, but we'll see. I was going to leave another comment about that individual on your Sly Stallone post, and this makes me think I should.
For some reason the Friday book made me think of Ritchie Valens, who calls himself a captain in “La Bamba.” He died on a Tuesday, but “American Pie” calls him the Son, so conceptually he died on Good Friday. Kind of a strange interpretation, but it’s what came to me.
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