A day before I had read this in The Story of Alice:
[T]he longer Alice spends underground the more her adventures start to resemble a narrative game of Doublets, in which the aim is to take 'Alice' and ensure that by the end of her story she is 'Alive'.
Doublets was a word game Carroll invented, in which the challenge is to transform one word into another by changing one letter at a time, with each intermediate step also being a word. (I used to play a very similar game as a child, the challenge typically being to get from sick to smug while passing through certain specified intermediate words on the way.)
"Help I'm . . ." makes me think of this old Calvin & Hobbes strip:
A child being shrunk down to a minuscule size takes us right back to Alice.
Note added: This is from one of the pictures linked in WG's comment below. A shrunk-down person walking on a keyboard is a pretty direct sync with the Calvin comic.
WG's game screenshot shows the person walking from G to F on a piano keyboard. In the Calvin strip, The H key is highlighted, but the G key is also visible. On both a piano and a Qwerty keyboard, the F key is immediately to the left of the G key -- that being the only thing the two layouts have in common.
The F and G keys got my attention in the context of my latest post, "Alice and Saturn (also zero and toucans)" because both of those keys -- and only those two -- are marked with the symbol of Saturn in the standard computer keyboard layout used in Taiwan. Letter keys on a Taiwan keyboard each bear four symbols: a Roman letter; a Chinese phonetic symbol; and two different Chinese characters, for use in the Cangjie and Dayi input methods respectively. Saturn is called 土星, "earth star" (meaning the element Earth, not the planet), and the character 土 appears on the F key (for Dayi) and the G key (for Cangjie).
I always use the phonetic-symbol method myself, so I'd never noticed until now that in the Cangjie system the first seven letters of the alphabet -- the ones that also appear on a piano keyboard -- correspond to the seven classical "planets":
- A = 日 = Sun
- B = 月 = Moon
- C = 金 = Venus (gold)
- D = 木 = Jupiter (wood)
- E = 水 = Mercury (water)
- F = 火 = Mars (fire)
- G = 土 = Saturn (earth)
I'm sure that wasn't an accident, but it's hard to see why that particular order was chosen. It begins with Sun and then Moon, and ends with Saturn, just like the days of the week, but then the others four days of the week are in reverse order, from Friday (Venus) to Tuesday (Mars).
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The night before this post I made a start on Wuthering Waves' latest story release, largely involving the "Dark Side", a transdimensional space that mirrors the collective psyche of Lahai-Roi's university. Besides finding I related considerably to a new character, Sigrika (also synching with part of my reply to the astrologer), so far the Dark Side ventures have contained some recurring symbols -- black holes, the Sun, locks and keys -- and an Alice homage. At first that was merely brief glimpses and mentions of rabbits, but at one point I went through a section that made the protagonist small (and required to walk along a keyboard!), and further on went through a series of small but unsettling scenes with multiple rabbits, reflecting the issues of Sigrika and some other students.
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The Dark Side also brought the current Artemis II space mission to mind, since they've just gone around the moon.
This is unrelated, but anthropology is pretty much impossible for people to be impartial about. It's not enough to claim to be the smartest people (I don't actually believe they are, different groups have different strengths and weaknesses), you have to be the first people (https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/shi-huangs-out-of-asia-theory.45584/). I have not looked into it, so maybe he is onto something. But then again, everybody's group is the best and if it's not one way, it's another.
I had read about a Japanese Marine biologist (Masaaki Kimura) who hypothesized that the ruins of Mu were off the coast of Japan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(mythical_lost_continent)). And then, it has been claimed that Mu was the origin of human beings. I don't know if Kimura makes the claim, but I could see someone who believes in both theories saying that the first humans were Japanese.
Anthropology has changed over the decades and despite what has been claimed, it has been neither monolithic nor a psyop. No branch of knowledge knows everything, but all too often I see this attitude of "everything you know is wrong, it's all propaganda, but whatever my theory now is, it's 100% right". Yet, what about some guy in the 1800's who could read 5 languages and lived in a stable culture without distractions who could think and read for hours every day. Was he some dummy? Sure, he probably didn't know everything, but well, who does?
Lately on TV, there's been frequent ads for a new show called The Miniature Wife.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Miniature_Wife
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