Chatting…

“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.