This caught my attention because I had just posted about a homophone of pie in "The closest calendrical approximations of pi" (June 6).
At first I thought of pie as a diminutive ending as in cutie-pie (which used to be written as QT 3.14 on Usenet, for another pi link). Didn't Marina Gamba use to call Galileo her little stargazy-pie? Not until I ran an image search for the phrase to get the above photo did I discover that it's an actual pie -- a Cornish dish with fish heads sticking out of it as if gazing at the stars:
Fish and stargazing together suggest the constellation of Pisces, which includes pi in its name and Pi Day (March 14) among the birthdates for which it is the sign. The title character in Life of Pi is actually named Piscine, having been named after a swimming pool, and that French word derives from the same Latin root as Pisces.
Pi-sces sounds like "pie sees" -- and why would a pie gaze at the stars if it couldn't see them?
Sometime in the late 1990s I read a poem in a magazine (I think it was Writer's Digest) that was called "Pisces." The first part was about looking at fish in an aquarium, and the second part was about stargazing. It ended with something very close to "You are all I have / For an anchor / In a sea of fish and stars." I have scoured the Internet in vain for any trace of this poem.
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This feels obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9TNcI7eUXY
That song's emphasis on various things that fish heads can't do is an indirect link to pie:
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie,
A fish can't whistle and neither can I.
Ask me a riddle and I reply
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie.
Good times to roll.
To roll another joint.
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Tonight I picked up my copy of the Silmarillion for the first time in a really long while. I opened to Chapter 3 "Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor", and began reading. I quickly came to words spoken by Mandos referencing the Elves (the Firstborn) and how they would be born under the stars:
"Moreover it is doom that the Firstborn shall come in the darkness, and shall look first upon the stars. Great light shall be for their waning. To Varda ever shall they call at need."
This mention of looking first upon the stars is a reference to Cuivienen and the Awakening of the Elves. Tolkien wrote that the very first things the Elves saw were the stars in the sky.
This of course took my mind to your t-shirt reference here, and to Star Gazing. As I was thinking about the fish in a pie gazing up at the stars, I had the strange notion to look up the Elvish word for "Fish".
Ingwe appeared as a word that means Fish. You remember, I think, that Ingwe, however, also means Chief, Prince of the Elves, etc., and was the first High King of all the Elves. He is one of the two "Gim G's" I wrote about on my blog - Gim Githil - and is my guess as to the earlier and Elvish incarnation of Peter (and Pharazon back when I was thinking through that storyline).
So seeing Fish = Ingwe was interesting. I've guessed that the strange words and events in my life in 2019 and 2020 involved the gathering and rescue of 82 of the original 96 Elves that had returned to Aman in the beginning, leaving 14 (perhaps some symbolic number... I don't know) still to be gathered, with that last remaining group being Ingwe and his people (the first shall be last kind of thing).
Your Tom Petty, "Roll another joint" reference is also a potential tie to Levi/ Levi's.
The name Levi means "Joined, attached", etc.
Joint can mean like where two bones meet, but that ultimately comes from the core word which means "united, connected" and "to join together".
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