Anon · 1 week ago
Napoleon was French. There is a picture sitting in dirt in the lower corner that one of your readers identified that is located in Paris. Napoleon did not win, the British did. His reign ended April 11, 1814. Is it possible that the arrows are about the missing date 11.4 or April 11th? So maybe something will take place in Italy at that time?
Also, if you look at the bottom left corner of the drum set. Notice the 50th? 50 years ago there was a huge shift in the US and it was brought on by President Johnson. Have you heard about The Great Society? Not only was it a band from the 60’s, but it was the set of domestic programs. It had to do with coming back from an economic down turn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Society
It was the “War On Poverty”. It worked for a little while to help spur economic growth, but it also expanded on the dependence of the State system. I thought about the clown fish which were an odd addition to the picture, but if you consider the clown fish and its habitat, I think it is likely to do with its dependency on the sea anemone it bonds with. Clown fish, their very survival, are dependent on the anemone like we are dependent to our social programs. I am not sure if the symbolism goes further into the social hierarchy of the clown fish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocellaris_clownfish
So with this in mind, take a look at the plinko board. That is a Chinese boy, a large and unhappy looking panda bear with a china flag, and CHI that is covered. It is clearly a reference to China. You can either read the ‘Panic’ as the Federal Reserve or China panicking. However, notice the lines that are coming off of the red chip, the direction the chip is coming from is Federal Reserve and the direction it is going is to ‘green light’.
The Federal Reserve is looking at an increase of jobs and better economy this year and thus going to give a 'green light' (according to NBC) to raising interest rates. Plus, notice the military looking China man with his hands up and face covered. It almost looks like surrender. What happens with the Federal Reserve if China were out of the way?
Churchill is very interesting and he believed that there would be a need for US and UK to impose their will on Russia, thus a WW3.
Oh, and the Alice and Wonderland feature. Here is the first chapter in which the Alice talks to the Cheshire Cat and it has to do with rather disturbing scene with a 'baby'. There was too much pepper in the air, the baby turns to a pig and ‘IF’ it had grown up it would have made an ugly adult. ‘If only one knew the right way to change them.’
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/alice-VI.html
Then I know you mentioned the turtle, but I think you should read Alice in Wonderland. Chapter nine, The Mock Turtle, as to do with a really depressed Turtle who says he is no longer a turtle.
He went to school all day. Alice asked if on the eleventh day if it was a HOLIDAY (remember that ghost with the holiday magazine?). He says of course it was. The Gryphon interrupts when she asks about the twelfth day. Then the next chapter gets stranger from there. I would go back and read the entire book if you get a chance.
Also, when the Duchess and Alice are talking there is mention of ‘when pigs fly’. Alice stated that she had a right to think and the Duchess said she had just about as right to think as when pigs have to fly. Then she was cut off before she said what the moral of that was. However, the Duchess said that she had given her a present with all that she had said. (Remember the piggy bank flying in the picture?)
That painting of the Japanese man behind Napoleon was at an art exhibit about awakening and introspection:
https://www6.miami.edu/lowe/exhibition_introspection.html http://www.kabuki21.com/kc.php http://www.theasiafiles.com/culture...15-1912/attachment/kunisada-sawamura-tosho-ii
This picture displays the actor in a play Kanadehon Chushingura and interestingly the actors are introduced through a puppet. It is the only play to do such. “The puppet performs the role of a stage manager, introducing the names of all the actors to appear in the play, and asking the audience for their kind patronage. The puppet is then removed from the stage." (Jean Wilson, April 1998)”
There was a relatively recent remake of the play into a film called Bunraku. It takes place after a global war where guns have been banned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunraku_(film)
Or there is 47 Ronin which is even more recent and different take on it as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/47_Ronin_(2013_film)
Now you might even find this more interesting is that the actor, Kunisada Sawamura Tosho II (who was painted in the picture), was in another play about a spider. He was rescued by the spider and given magical spider powers. Sound even more similar and likely related to the spiderman in the picture? Then to take revenge, he uses the spider scroll to conjure up a beast.
http://www.toshidama-japanese-print...II-as-Wakana-Hime-from-Toyokuni-Manga-zue.htm
