Who’s MUnck?

The Shining, Shot 437.

Probably nothing, but here’s a fellow named Carl Munck who formulated his code, sourced in the Giza pyramids, about the same time as The Shining was being filmed. I’ve checked through all of these pages in shot 437, and MUnck (Münck?) may be the most deviant variation of Jack in the prime sentence.

Remember that we’ve just seen a pyramid related object highlighted by a white speck in the shot before this (436), as well as a large red sparkle toward the end of the shot. This doesn’t seem chance. But what of the possible Carl Munck connection? Is Kubrick saying that Jack has become just as crazy as Munck with his huge matrix of geomantic number connections… page after page after page after page?

Also keep in mind here the thought that The Shining’s sno-cat, the rescue vehicle for Wendy and Danny, is a symbol for the Sphinx, which Munck claims in this video (1:48) is more a kitten than a full grown cat.

http://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/shining_8am.htm

Rather than looking at it as crazy Jack simply having typed the same phrase over and over again in a fit of insanity, the repeated phrase is another expression of this deja vu and repeating patterns, such as in the world maze where we had the same repeating patterns ad infinitum. [my emph] This repeated phrase is, after all, a Kubrick invention. It did not appear in the King book.

Postcard from Steptoe

Story Room consists of 3 individuals who don the geometric shapes sphere, tetrahedron and cube to mask their true identities. Sometimes lead singer Steptoe Butte is from Whitman County, Washington.

From the Uncyclopedia entry on Steptoe Butte:

“He was a striking-looking guy and he also bought weird records, which not everyone in the store did”, collaborator Pete StarBuck recalled. The two became friends and eventually decided to form a band.[1] StarBuck and Steptoe started writing music together;[2] at the time Steptoe also spent time in a local group named Raid.[3] The pair were soon joined by Bill Mills and Mike Berry and named themselves Murmur, a name Steptoe selected at random from the dictionary.[4]

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“Hucka D., clarify for me something. Wouldn’t Steptoe be the blue figure here?”

Hucka D.:

Sometimes.

bb:

Is he the yellow figure as well?

Hucka D.:

No.

bb:

The red figure is the boss.

Hucka D.:

That’s Story Room.

bb:

I’m confused. I thought the name of the band was, or is, Story Room.

Hucka D.:

It is. (pause)

bb:

Where does Tom’s Petty High fit in[ here]?

Hucka D.:

Yellow. Lemon yellow.

bb:

Each… sorry.

Hucka D.:

Each rule over their portions of The Shining that come before or after. So Tom’s Petty High rules the psychiatrist-Danny scene. What have you renamed that recently?

bb:

The Story Room. Oh, wait. That’s — I know what you’re talking about now — that’s the Bear Pillow Scene, with all the little blips and sparkles, at least a handful that seem to mean something.

Hucka D.:

Sorry as well: actually Story Room rules that scene. So that’s why you have the word “strange” highlighted spoken by the doctor, and then the Duck just afterwards. The duck is both the lemon colored VW that protagonist [sic?] Jack drives to the Overlook Hotel to start the movie, and also Duck, WV, then. The presence of The Duck demonstrates the rule of Story Room, see.

bb:

Let’s see.

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Hucka D.:

Story Room had a lot of fun with that room.

bb:

Isn’t Story Room, though, the room in the exact center of the Shining with all the rainbow colors, Hucka? Rainbow man Hallorann lies in the middle. Soon to shine. [no answer]

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Experiments w/ a Bullsear (Test continued)

Gray (S)adler 04

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There are a number of other very interesting towns around Red Cross besides nearby Level Cross already discussed in “Gray (S)adler 03.” Note first that Red Cross is near Climax, just over the northern Randolph County line in Guilford, and also lies within the Climax topographic map. Julian also seems meaningful, but I’ll have to get back to that if so. And then we have both a Grays Chapel and a Whites Chapel not far south of Red Cross (!). Lineberry (Linberry?) may reinforce, for us, the 2 needed lines to form a cross. Then there’s Melanchton a couple of miles to Red Cross’ southwest, the only US population place that begins with the letters “melanch”, like “melancholia”. I pretty strongly believe, however impossible it seems once more, that this is referring to Durer’s very famous 16th Century print “Melencholia I”, the first of a series planned on the subject of melancholia in general according to some sources. For now, I’ll say it has to do with the 4×4 Magic Square of the picture — I’ll study more about the print this weekend.

The topographic maps covering Randolph County could be a reinterpretation of the 4×4 square given the presence of MELACHton within (Grays Chapel topo map).

A 4×4 square appears above the CH O KING poster. In the movie, I believe Kubrick wants an association to be made between it and the 4 washers in the neighboring room, as already discussed as well in “Gray (S)adler 03”. I now think it can also be associated with Randolph County, NC, even though this is something that Kubrick in all likelihood *didn’t* plan. We have wandered off his map, if so.

The position of Red Cross is marked with a red cross. If The Shining’s 4×4 paper and Randolph County’s topo maps are aligned this way, the 2 “red crosses” are basically directly north and south of each other. The folded back corner of one the pieces of the “map” indicates the position of Red Cross, and also Level Cross directly above it, in turn (again if we turn the map sideways).

Some more on Randolph County:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_County,_North_Carolina

Randolph County is located in the center of North Carolina & the city of Asheboro (located in Randolph County) is the center point of North Carolina.

In 1911, a new county called Piedmont County was proposed, with High Point as its county seat, to be created from Guilford, Davidson and Randolph Counties. Many people appeared at the Guilford County courthouse to oppose the plan, vowing to go to the state legislature to protest. The state legislature voted down the plan in February 1911.[7][8]

Durer’s “Melancolia I” and its well known 4×4 square, also called the Magic Square of Jupiter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melencolia_I

Even if he didn’t plan it, don’t you think Kubrick would like the alignment of 2 maps called Climax and Erect on either side of Randolph County?!

X marks the spot again.

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