Listen to “Eyes Without A Face” by Billy Idol.
Lacey walks out of the Gold Room with Lem. In 1980. They’re heading to their car. To go back to Denver.
They say their goodbyes to Tom Banks. They worry about the state of his heart. He seems okay? He hasn’t had a heart attack yet, in this scenario. And Lem doesn’t want to lose his other father, just yet. But he’s strong and it helps to have a wife to be strong for. It makes being strong seem…like…something.
Tom does have a heart attack, in a year. At home. But he doesn’t die for another 10 years.
Listen to “Non, je ne regrette rien” as performed by Édith Piaf.
Enter Stanley Kubrick.
He glances around the set of “The Shining” and decides it is indeed very Third Reich. As in, the aesthetic is Nazi Germany in the 1930’s and early 40’s.
Listen to “Padam, Padam” as performed by Édith Piaf.
He did that intentionally.
Why?
Because…Nazi Germany was against child trafficking. No, it REALLY was. It wasn’t a clever way to get votes. The real German Nazis actually slaughtered pedophiles. Slaughtered them.
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And…that was part of reason…they were taken so seriously, by the German people. Wallis Simpson and Edward…loved each other, deeply. And…they appreciated that…the Germans truly appreciated love.
When a grown German man saw a 1936 Nazi…shoot a man who had molested his neighbor’s son…and the look of relief on the boy’s face…he was…convinced. The only way out of HELL was violence. …Some sort of righteous violence.
Nazi Germany was a result of the collapse of the German economy after World War I. So…they too tried selling kids, just as America actually has. Bobby Kennedy Junior is…not to be trusted…and yet, he makes interesting points. It seems in financial desperation selling humans can make sense to some people.
So…they actually did that. Way back then. They sold kids. In Germany. …After World War I. For molestation.
And then the Nazis, yes…the Nazis…cleaned that up. They just shot the people. And…to be brutally honest…it kinda worked? The pedophiles weren’t sad. They were dead. The kids were safe. Things seemed…hopeful.
The Nazis also shot rapists. No, they really did. …And they were into healthcare, healthfood…and…protecting nature.
They got results.
Listen to “Sabotage” by Beastie Boys.
The thing is…there were real good Jews. Too many for the Holocaust to make sense.
What’s also sad…is that the truth they had…has been lost.
You think the Neo Nazis are the same? They’re not. The Nazis were GERMAN. Not just white. GERMAN. And yes, it does matter. DUH!
So…-
Have the Republicans truly cleaned-up the child trafficking rings? No. Maybe it’s better? But…I doubt it’s over.
The Democrats are…worse. On that issue. Actually…they’re literally insane. …But…the Republicans aren’t real Nazis.
Listen to “Prelude. Allegro giocoso – Andante moderato” by Bizet from Carmen.
The Nazis shot men in the street…without shame. Trumpers are not those people. I’m sorry!!!
The Nazis went around killing tons of people. Who were just walking around. Minding their own business. That’s not us!!! …Germany was able to do that. Americans aren’t all German. We don’t think that way!
And they were doing it for GOOD REASON. We’ve lied about that.
No, I’m talking about the shootings. Not the Holocaust.
Did the effectiveness of the shootings make them think…a Holocaust made sense? Yes. And they may have felt…some guilt…about some people. And thought, “Hey! We need to really figure out who’s the real bad person.”
*Short break*
So the Nazis killed Jews. And lost the war.
…Whatever we’re doing…let’s pause for a second and have a conversation about them. …Why did they go so far?
They were German.
You may walk into the world of the Overlook Hotel and feel terror. Lacey is sad, nostalgic and heartbroken. Two very different reactions, same place.
Why does she feel that way? Her father’s mom was a woman of German ancestry. Her grandmother…was German.
So…why does Jack Torrance turn into a popsicle?
The woman in room 237: We thought that aaa best.
A reader: HEY. Wait…
I’ve always assumed the hotel was crucifying Danny? Not Jack.
The woman in room 237: Danny is willing to be…flexible. He can tell he might be wrong. At least, some. Or it seems that way, for now.
Maybe Steven King meant otherwise. But in reality we believed Danny was…the victim. And we never intended to kill him. We were secretly after Jack the whole time. We knew Danny’s mom could defend them. And we knew Jack was miserable.
A reader: So you meant to kill Jack?
The woman in 237: Yes.
A reader: Why were you so nice to him?
The woman in 237: To fool him. Of course!
You thought Grady was being serious!?
Listen to “A Beautiful Day” by U2.
A reader: Yeah…
The woman in room 237: Yeah.
A reader: So you fooled him!?!
WHAT!?
The woman in room 237: *cracks-up laughing*
Wow! You all are SLOW.
YEAH!
We’re real. Grady was a man. A real man.
Does he genuinely seem completely serious?
Look again!
He’s…studying Jack.
A reader: Umm…-
Okay.
So he’s being set-up for his own death?
The woman in room 237: YES!
We’re taking him back. If there’s reincarnation. And…sending him out to pasture.
*She cackles*
He’s NUTS.
Another reader: So…why not just shoot him?
The woman in room 237: Well…we did freeze him to death.
Huh.
I guess because…in the film, as it’s written, reincarnation exists. And…we know him. …And so we decide to let Hollarann die, in the hotel. And…we take him back. Out of some empathy.
He’s…a nicer guy than it seems. He took good care of the hotel.
*Later*
Eric: We’re worried this is Sarah, Lacey’s former neighbor.
Because…this is what comes up:
That woman moved out of the neighborhood. But…I’m- *He laughs* I’m worried she’s going to the Domestic Abuse Center to report Lacey-
And they’d likely believe her. Sadly. …Even though she’s actually committing a FELONY if she did that.
Lacey’s NOT an abusive person. At all.
Mark reported it as junk. He’s been totally disinterested. But Lacey has a sense of such things and so do I!
Sarah…you’re breaking the law. Sarah Davies, if that’s you…you’re BREAKING THE LAW.
You need to leave them alone.
Lacey: She probably convinced herself I was abusive. Which is…so sick.
Sarah…are you convinced I’m sleeping with Christian’s ghost!? *Lacey laughs* What’s your….rage all about?
A reader: WHO SAID “WRONG NUMBER”? LACEY!?
I bet it was Lacey!!!
I bet she screens his calls…
Yup! I bet you anything she’s screening his calls! Yup!
The CIA: Mark wrote that. That’s his thinking.
Why are you so desperate? Huh? What’s going on?
Or is that a scam?
*They look into it*
An energy named Sarah who may or may not be the real woman who lived next to her: I thought I was impressing you. You think I’m a hick!!
Eric: You are a hick.
Let’s move on.
Would you chase them all over the world? Including into Russia?
*He cracks-up laughing*
Lacey: I’m in shock.
I’ve never been so misunderstood in my life.
But…it’s interesting.
Or are you all…after me? I highly doubt you’re working for Russia.
Russia: They’re not.
An energy called Sarah: Did he show her that!?
The CIA: Yeah…Sarah.
He did.
Because it freaked him out. It totally freaked him out.
An energy called Sarah: So he did actually sleep around a lot? I didn’t realize that was possible.
The CIA: Oh wow!
Yeah, he did.
An energy called Sarah: Was he worried I was some woman he slept with??!?
The CIA: When!?
An energy called Sarah: That’s a scam. Or…I was trying to be clever.
I don’t know? Last week?
The CIA: No. It would have been over 15 years ago.
As far as we can tell, he’s not a cheater.
*They laugh.*
“Have you forgotten me!?”
Lacey: I really hope that’s just a scam!
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