“Hucka D., I thought we might have that long overdue discussion about TILE tonight, or at least start that dialog.”
Hucka D.:
Sure you don’t want to go inworld and explore more?
bb:
I’m fairly positive. Collage #3 will probably start up again tomorrow; we have a little break in the meantime.
Hucka D.:
Lots of snow outside. I predict you’ll have to wait until at least 9 to go into work.
bb:
Right. So… TILE.
Hucka D.:
OK, well the rook led you into the woods. Jasper the Rook, who is also a raven and and a crow and a blackbird in general. Dead of night stuff and all. He continues to lead. He’s leading you to the heart.
bb:
Is this heart TILE?
Hucka D.:
Can be. Do you want it to be?
bb:
I knew you were going to add that (smiles).
Hucka D.:
You’re starting to read my mind fairly well.
bb:
So Jasper the Rook is leading me to TILE.
Hucka D.:
That would be correct sir.
bb:
Can I ask any more about that, then?
Hucka D.:
Jasper is here.
bb:
OK. Hi Jasper.
Jasper the Rook:
Kaw!
bb:
Kansas?
*****
bb:
So we’re back with Jasper the Rook. Jasper?
Jasper the Rook:
Caw!
bb:
That’s better. So Jasper?
Jasper the Rook:
Caw! Caw, caw, caw!
bb:
What’s he trying to say, Hucka D.?
Hucka D.:
He’s saying, “Kansas! Kansas, Kansas, Kansas!”
bb:
I don’t think he’s saying that, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
Let me check. Jasper?
Jasper the Rook:
Caw?
Hucka D.:
Caw, caw, caw?
Jasper the Rook:
Caw! Caw, caw, caw!
Hucka D.:
Yes baker b., he’s saying Kansas.
bb:
Dark Side of the Rainbow kind of Kansas, or collage type of Kansas, like Stranger Creek?
Hucka D.:
Latter. But they are connected through Cottonwood Falls anyway.*
bb:
(pause) Is this about SID’s 1st Oz, perhaps?
Hucka D.:
Tyle. Tyle, Tyle, Tyle.
*****
bb:
Funny. Why does Y replace I, then? That should be an easy one, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
That’s actually the hardest question you could ask.
bb:
We must relate it to SID’s 1st Oz, though.
Hucka D.:
Yes. Tull.
bb:
Y is the 4th. The last to be inserted or created. First you have beginning-middle-end, then the 4th somewhere in the middle of all that.
Hucka D.:
Red, green, blue. Where is the 4th?
bb:
Where is the ground, in other words? The Earth?
Hucka D.:
Always the question.
bb:
Should we…?
Hucka D.:
Diamonds. East, Great Lakes, West. Atlantic to Spec… Pacific. Coast to coast. Known. Diamonds, The. [Delete name]. He is Master Tiler. The.
bb:
Thank you for talking about this subject tonight. Do we need to bring in [delete name] and talk to him again? I’d rather avoid that if I could.
Hucka D.:
We could.
bb:
Where’d Jasper go, Hucka D.?
Hucka D.:
Preparing the setting of the next collage, I suppose.
bb:
In the heart of the woods?
Hucka D.:
4th.
bb:
I’m picking up something about teeth.
Hucka D.:
Toothpick?
(to be continued?)
* The Stranger Creek blog includes a poem about Cottonwood Falls, and provides a picture. Return to Oz is partially set in Cottonwood Falls, home to Dr. Worley’s (bad guy in movie) clinic.
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