- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Recon Number 54
What do I think? I think that it might be time to quote Sigmund Freud. Who was a very repressed individual who saw erotic overtones nearly everywhere. (It must have been all of the drugs combined with Victorian/Eduardian society) But even he said, "...sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
True, true, a cigar is a cigar. . . sometimes. I've been toying with
those timeline numbers so long I just got exited when something lined
up. It may be nothing, but it could be something. (although it's unlikely)
I may be beating a dead horse here, but let me say why I like this idea.
In the KYT unformatted terminal, the speaker begins with the name
Roland. Roland died in 776. (I've also read that he died in 777)
I think beginning with the name Roland has a purpose, and not just
to emphasize the connection between him and Durandal either.
I think it could be seen as a hint to the beginning of the Hero's
Eternal life. ("destiny" if you prefer =) So if the life of the immortal
begins in 777 with death, and the Hero goes to the afterlife.
Hell is implied because about midway through the terminal,
there are segments very similar to Dante's Purgatorio.
This is what reminds me of the Cortana Letters and the frequent
allusion to Blake. The passage from The Marriage of Heaven
and Hell reads "As a new heaven is begun, and it is now thirty-
three years since its advent: the Eternal Hell revives. And lo!
Swedenborg is the Angel sitting at the tomb!" It's interesting
that a new heaven is made because it correlates with the
allusion to genesis in the KYT terminal. 33 years later, the
new Hell comes, and the Hero is stuck in it. the added 33
years sets up the comet connection, because if you add
1001 years after that, you get 1811, the first time the comet
goes through the galaxy on the timeline. What bothers me
is the extra year on the thousand year intervals because
it screws with the dates. It's closer than anything else I've
come up with though!