A masquerade is a Trope (literature) that is used to conceal the identity and certain characteristics of a figure.[1] This concealment has the effect of highlighting some unique or noteworthy aspect of a character or situation, despite its suggested intention of subtlety.[1]
There exists the true nature of a character or situation alongside the image that is outwardly displayed and perceived by others in that universe, which can create a layered complexity that adds depth and dimension to the narrative.[1]
The historical traces of this term extend deeply throughout history and its influence on the texts in which appears becomes increasingly more dynamic and a variety of genres take advantage of the masquerade trope.
It's popularly employed in the fantasy and superhero genres, but there are other instances in which it can be found across various fictional works.[Wikipedia]
HEART OF DARKNESS BY UKRAINIAN BORN FRENCH SPEAKING POLISH AUTHOR-JOSEF CONRAD HAS A CERTAIN 'INFLUENCE' ON SOME MOVIE-MAKERS- CHARACTERS IN THIS BOOK-SUCH AS 'THE MAN IN PINK PAJAMAS' OR 'MARLOW' WHICH COULD PERHAPS BE SEEN AS TAKEN 'OUT OF CONTEXT' ON OCCASION...'THE JEW OF MALTA' A PLAY BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE OR 'MARLOW' IN 'THE BIG SLEEP' RAYMOND CHANDLER NOIR..
[INTERESTING TECHNIQUE THERE WITH THOSE GIGS DUDE..COPIED OF COURSE BY JEFF MULLET-HEAD IN 'LEBOWSKI' AFTER SUPPOSEDLY MEETING 'BUNNY' FOR THE FIRST TIME
[pic from 'THE BIG SLEEP' 1946] SHE IS HIS OLD LAS VEGAS SHOWGIRL GIRLFRIEND/MAGICIANS ASSISTANT [BUNNY AND TOP HAT CARD MANIPULATOR?]- IMPLANTED INTO THE LEBOWSKI ABODE AS PART OF THE 'DISAPPEARANCE' 'CON'-
LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE-'BATHTUB' AND 'SHOTGUN' DIALOGUE-
ALONG WITH 'JACK DANIELS BOTTLE' IN 'THE FISHER KING' SHOCK-JOCK MOVIE
ALL SEEN BEFORE ...BECAUSE ITS REALLY JUST A HYPNOTIC RECALL.
MARLON BRANDO'S 'KURTZ' IN 'APOCALYPSE NOW' IS BASED ON CONRADS IDEALISTIC TALE OF BELGIAN [FRENCH SPEAKING]COLONIALISM...IT DEPENDS A GREAT DEAL ON YOUR EDUCATIONAL STATUS AS TO WHETHER OR NOT YOU THINK IT TO BE A SAD TALE OR A GREAT ADVENTURE STORY..
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LA JOYA [the 'JEWEL'] in TEXAS-NOT CALIFORNIA..ORANGE BOWL DUDE...
HENCE THE APPEARANCE OF A 'COWBOY/STRANGER' IN THE SCRIPT
'Last Train' ...We've all missed one at some time...Bummer.. 'Train of thought?'
According to Hart, "We were just looking for a name that sounded good. There's a little town in northern Arizona I used to go through in the summer on the way to Oak Creek Canyon called Clarkdale. We were throwing out names, and when we got to Clarkdale, we thought Clarksville sounded even better. We didn't know it at the time, [but] there is an Army base near the town of Clarksville, Tennessee — which would have fit the bill fine for the storyline
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VIETNAM...changed the 'Soul' of America.
The single's B-side, "Take a Giant Step," later appeared as the closing track on Side 1 of the Monkees' debut album.[14]Micky Dolenz performed lead vocals.[14]The song is presented as a plea to a heartbroken girl to move on from her past romantic disappointments and to "learn to live again at last" by "taking a giant step outside your mind." Critic Eric Lefcowitz describes the song as "proto-psychedelic."
THESE CHARACTERS WERE LOOKING FOR THE 'KING RAT'..IN THE ANCIENT PLUMBING...THEY SHARED THE APARTMENT ie were 'JOBBING ACTORS' SAME AS JEFF..
JEFF YET AGAIN HAD 'MISSED A PAYMENT'..[HE IS EPILEPTIC AND SUFFERS FROM MEMORY LOSS]
'Fleapowder' =Street for Heroin...
CANCER? NOT SO FUNNY
THE REAL LARRY SELLERS was a Native American STUNTMAN now sadly deceased [See IMDB etc]
TREEHORN IS PROBABLY BASED ON JOHN TREEHORN THE PSYCHIATRIST WHO TREATS VETERANS WITH PTSD IN THE BOOKS BY DINAH MILLER.
IN EFFECT THE JEFF LEBOWSKI CHARACTER ANSWERS MOST OF HIS OWN QUESTIONS VIA THE OTHER CHARACTERS- WHY DID LARRY WANT A CAR?
IN A 1972 NEW YORK TIMES INTERVIEW JEFF BRIDGES IS DESCRIBED AS 'EYEING A BOTTLE OF KAHLUA' THROUGHOUT..
SO JEFF LEBOWSKI IS NOT THE ONLY IMBIBER OF THE MEXICAN 'SPIRIT'...
BEN GAZZARA AS TREEHORN THE SUPPOSED PORNOGRAPHER TELLS JEFF THAT THE BRAIN IS THE 'BIGGEST EROGENOUS'ZONE [WHICH LINKS TO ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHER BELIEFS ABOUT SEMEN BEING PRODUCED IN THE BRAIN]
[TREEHORN IS PROBABLY BASED ON A CHILD PSYCHIATRIST WHO USED 'GESTALTS'/DRAWING AS PART OF A COURSE OF TREATMENT-BEING RECALLED OR AS I HAVE SHOWN ABOVE A FICTIONAL PSYCHIATRIST WHO SPECIALIZED IN BRAIN TRAUMA ]
A JAGUAR XJS WITH AMERICAN SPEC DUAL HEADLIGHTS [EUROPEAN IS SINGLE HEADLIGHT]WAS ALSO IN 8MILLION WAYS TO DIE MOVIE MADE SOMETIME BEFORE 'LEBOWSKI' BY OLD MULLET
'BARBIE'=BARBITURATE
JACK KEROUAC NOVELS AGAIN..'ON THE ROAD' 'DHARMA BUMS' 'BIG SUR' 'THE SUBTERRANEANS' AND SO ON..
or 'KERE' being female 'Death Spirits' in Greek Mythology etc hence 'Kerebatsos'] BATSOS =slap giver in Greek..
SOBCHAK WEARS SHORT PANTS [SAME AS THE COPS IN THE MALIBU POLICE STATION AND MARTY]AND USES 'FAKE ASH' CIGARETTES' ETC-HE IS ANOTHER TRICKSTER IMPERSONATING HIS CREATOR.
'MUD'=HEROIN
SOBCHAK SPECIALISES IN 'PHANTOM ILLNESSES' AND JEFF, BECAUSE OF HIS JEWELS PROGRAMMING- THINKS HE HAS DEVELOPED A 'FORM' OF TESTICULAR CANCER.
[PROBABLY LESIONS FROM CONTRACTING AN STD]
'TOE'=LUMP OF CANNABIS
CARL JUNG GOES INTO GREAT DETAIL ABOUT 'PHANTOM ILLNESSES' IN 'AION' ETC
THE 'BRANDED' COWARDICE THEMED TV SHOW SABRE [SEE WEB] WHICH COULD RELATE TO 'VIETNAM' AND THE DRAFT- AND A 'ZANE GREY THEATRE' ROLE PLAYED BY LLOYD BRIDGES CALLED ' IMAGE OF A DRAWN SWORD' [1961]
OR IT COULD BE THAT AFTER AN ACCIDENT ON A HIGHWAY THE DUI DRIVER ABANDONED THE CAR AND TRIED TO GET HOME ON FOOT -THE DRIVER [WE ARE TOLD BY THE JEFF CHARACTER] IS SOBCHAK.
'MEXICAN HORSE'=HEROIN
IT IS SOBCHAK WHO WEARS A 'TRIPPING HELMET'[BANDANA WHILST DRIVING] TINTED SHADES AND THE ATTIRE OF A [DEER] HUNTER.
THE 'DOCTOR' WHO EXAMINES JEFFS EARS..
EARWAX=CANNABIS IN STREET
AS A DOCTOR HE WOULD HAVE ACCESS TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS..WHICH JEFF AND SMOKEY AND QUINTANA [ALL REMEMBERED KIDS FROM HIS YOUTH]ALL WANT TO STEAL...[ROBIN GOODFELLOW IS A SHAKESPEARE CLOWN IN 'MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM-ALSO KNOWN AS 'PUCK']
'PORT HURON' IS A BORDER CROSSING TO CANADA NEAR CHICAGO .
'LA JOYA' IS IN TEXAS, AT THE MEXICO BORDER
A KEY IS A KILOGRAM OF COCAINE.
'METALLICA' COULD BE OUR OLD PROTAGONIST 'MERCURIUS DUPLEX' OR 'M.D' HENCE THE DOCTOR [REALLY FAUST] OR M-AU-D ETC]-SOME OF THESE EARLY JEFF BRIDGES MOVIES ARE REALLY COMICAL-'IN SEARCH OF AMERICA' COMES TO MIND AS ANOTHER RIPOFF OF LSD USER PEDERAST/COVERT CIA OPERATIVE- 'KEN KESEY'S 'MAGIC BUS'- WITH ITS HILARIOUS DIALOGUE;
Man: I hope we're not in your way.
Hippie Girl: No, not at all. 'Cause you don't really exist. You, me, all of us. We're just dream particles in a great cosmic jellyfish.
IN THE BRIDGES' VERSION -THE BUS NEVER LEAVES CALIFORNIA -BUT KESEY AND THE CIA HAVE A SOMEWHAT AMUSING HISTORY-WITH REGARDS TO THE LSD.
KESEY BOUGHT HIS BUS FROM EARNINGS WRITING 'ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST' WHICH AS WE KNOW IS ABOUT MENTAL PATIENTS/HOSPITALS-THE CIA ARE REPORTED TO HAVE GIVEN LSD TO AN ELEPHANT...
ALL CHARACTERS ARE TRICKSTERS TRYING TO 'OUTWIT' EACH OTHER.
MOTHER COMPLEXES DUDE...AND REMEMEMBERED OLD MOVIES...A COMBINATION..
ALL LINKED TO CANNABIS
'DR FEELGOOD'=HEROIN
ALL CHARACTERS ARE LINKED TO TOXICITY AND DEATH IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, 'PURPLE DEATH' [QUINTANA OR 'Q' BOTH HAVE LINKS TO EPIDEMICS IN ANIMALS AND HUMANS-'SPANISH FLU' KILLED MILLIONS AND WAS CALLED 'PURPLE DEATH' -'Q' COXIELLA BURNETTII BACTERIUM GET IT? HAS CAUSED MISCARRIAGES ETC-
'BUNNY' IS LINKED TO 'BIKINI ATOLL' IN THE PACIFIC WITH IT'S NUCLEAR CONTAMINATION ETC AND MORE WELL KNOWN STD'S INCLUDING GONORRHEA AND SYPHILIS
TOXIC FUNGHI OR TOXIC 'FUN GUYS' YOU THE READER MUST DECIDE. POISON IS HEAVILY INVOLVED THROUGHOUT-ESPECIALLY POISONED MILK.
THE CREATED CHARACTERS COME FROM THE COENS- THE ACTORS INVOLVED ARE MERELY 'INTERPRETING' THE EXPERIENCES OR IMAGINATIVE CREATIONS OF THE COENS.
THE MINNESOTA AREA CHILDHOOD ENVIRONMENT WHERE THESE GUYS WERE RAISED CONTAINS MUCH UNCONSCIOUS SYMBOLISM.
THE 'BLB' [BIG LEBOWSKI?] THEATRE IN MINNESOTA WITH IT'S BOWLING ALLEY AND BAR..THE 'DRINKER NEGATIVE PRESSURE VENTILATOR' OR 'IRON LUNG' WAS DEVELOPED IN MINNESOTA...
He made his professional stage debut in Berkeley as Lucentio in “The Taming of the Shrew,” and in 1937 made his Broadway debut in a bit part in Shakespeare’s “Othello.” That year he also became a founding member of the Off-Broadway company called the Playroom Club, and taught dramatics at a private school. On Broadway, he appeared in such plays as “Night Must Fall,” “Stage Door,” “Death Takes a Holiday,” “A Doll’s House” and “One Sunday Afternoon.”
[FROM ABOVE LINKED SITE] PLAYROOM CLUB THEATRE
THE THEATRE IS WHERE THIS 'M.D' FAUSTIAN PHANTOM AND ENTIRE SCRIPT CAME FROM- AND I THINK IT WAS A VERY PARTICULAR LOCAL THEATRE IN MINNESOTA FOR THE COENS- BUT ANOTHER 'OFF BROADWAY' NYC THEATRE ALSO HAS A CONNECTION..
LLOYD BRIDGES FOUNDED THE 'PLAYROOM CLUB' ACTORS WORKSHOP AND HIS FAMILY LINKS TO SAN LEANDRO IN CALIFORNIA INCLUDE HIS FATHER- THE GRANDFATHER OF MULLET-
WHO ACTUALLY ACTED/APPEARED IN SILENT MOVIES....AND OWNED A THEATRE..
[THIS IS WHERE BUSTER KEATON COMES IN AS A MEMORY]
ABOVE SITE MENTIONS KARL WALLENDA-LLOYD BRIDGES PLAYED HIM IN 'THE GREAT WALLENDAS' TV MOVIE [ABOUT TRAPEZE ARTISTS]
MARTY FELDMAN OF 'YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN' MOVIE FAME-DIED IN MEXICO AFTER EATING 'POISONED CRABS' [SEE WEB]
ANOTHER PRESIDENT OF THE USA[1850] ZACHARY TAYLOR DIED AFTER DRINKING MILK AND EATING 'POISONED CHERRIES'..[SEE WEB]
TAYLOR AND TAILOR ARE INTERCHANGEABLE SURNAMES -TAILORS WITH SLEEVELESS SHIRTS? OR THEATRICAL COSTUME MAKERS?
[PRESIDENTS OF THE U.S.A IS A BOARD GAME USED WITH OTHER GAMES MONOPOLY ETC TO CREATE THE SCRIPT -HENCE JOHNSON NIXON BUSH ETC]
AN 'ANGEL' IN THEATRELAND IS A FINANCIAL BACKER OF PRODUCTIONS.
THE 'JEFF' CHARACTER IS TOLD TO DELIVER[TRAVEL] TO THE 'CITY OF PASADENA' AND WE ASSUME IT IS THE LOS ANGELES DISTRICT HOME OF THE 'ROSEBOWL'?
HOWEVER TEXAS ALSO HAS A 'CITY OF PASADENA'
THE 'KEY' COULD BE A KILOGRAM [COCAINE]
THE PLANT HOLYWOOD IS MEDICINAL -IT IS KNOWN AS 'THE TREE OF LIFE'
AND IT'S WOOD -'LIGNUM VITAE' WAS USED TO MAKE BOWLING BALLS..BEFORE
THE ADVENT OF EPOXY RESINS MADE IT REDUNDANT.
[BOWLING BALLS WERE FILLED WITH NARCOTICS FOR TRANSPORTATION NOT BRIEFCASES] IT IS STILL IN THE BASEMENT OF THE THEATRE WITH OTHER PROPS.
SURF BOARDS TOO-WERE USED TO SMUGGLE NARCOTICS.
OR OVER THE BORDER DOWN MEXICO WAY.. [HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL ]
“Only two notable things have happened in the history of Archer City, Tex. (pop. 1,862). In 1964, the high-school football team, the Wildcats, won the state championship. And in 1971, local boy Larry McMurtry turned his novel about low-down, real-life town gossip into a screenplay with Peter Bogdanovich, who turned it into a movie called The Last Picture Show.”
'QUINTANA'? MEANS PROSTITUTE IN MEXICAN/HISPANIC SLANG
HAIR IS USED IN 'NECROMANCY'...[WHICH IS JUST HYPNOTIC REGRESSION UNDER DRUG INFLUENCE.] GOLEMS ALWAYS DESTROY THEIR 'CREATORS'
THE 'RUG' ALSO MEANS 'THE WIG'.[A SOURCE OF A FAMOUS ACTORS HAIR]
SALVADOR DALI THE SURREALIST ARTIST ONCE SOLD YOKO ONO A BLADE OF GRASS FOR 10000 DOLLARS [SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS GETTING A HAIR FROM HIS MUSTACHE-HE THOUGHT SHE WAS A WITCH WHO COULD USE THE HAIR FOR 'MAGIC'-SO SUBSTITUTED THE GRASS]
DALI WAS NUTS ..[HAD MORE COMPLEXES THAN ANYONE I'VE EVER HEARD OF]
In addition to Freudian imagery—staircases, keys, dripping candles—he also used a host of his own symbols, which had special, usually sexual, significance to him alone: the grasshoppers that once tormented him, ants, crutches, and a William Tell who approaches his son not with a bow and arrow but a pair of scissors.
[note the BURNING GIRAFFE] DALI ALSO PRODUCED 'THE GREAT MASTURBATOR' ...
DALI HAD A TECHNIQUE WHERE HE WOULD STARE AT AN OBJECT UNTIL 'IT CHANGED INTO SOME OTHER FORM' IN HIS MIND- SURREALISM ENSUED- BUT ITS ONE OF THOSE LOVE IT OR HATE IT THINGS SAME AS ELLIOTS 'WASTELAND' POEM..PERSONALLY I THINK DALI WHO WAS AN ADMIRER OF HITLER WAS ANOTHER PEDERAST/VICTIM..
HIS WORK INCLUDES INSECTS CLOCKS ETC -ALL FREUDIAN STUFF- DALI WAS VERY CLEVER AND ACTUALLY MET FREUD ONE TIME, BUT HEY THEY ARE BOTH VERY DEAD NOW..LOL..
BETTER CALL KING SAUL DUDE...HE WAS AFTER ALL THE FIRST BIBLICAL DOCUMENTED NECROMANCER.
[I THINK YOU CAN STILL FIND HIM AND SOBCHAK IN THE ALBUQUERQUE BASED TV SHOW]
ALBUQUERQUE IS THE SETTING FOR THE 2024 MOVIE 'BONEYARD'
WITH SUPPOSED ANTI-SEMITE AUSTRALIAN 'MEL' GIBSON....
WHO 'PROFILES' SERIAL KILLERS FOR? THE F.B.I.
DEAD BODIES AND TOES? I WONDER WHO ELSE HAS BEEN TO ...ALBUQUERQUE
NEIL YOUNG THE MUSICIAN PERHAPS?
BECAUSE ITS THE TITLE OF YET ANOTHER OF HIS SONGS..
[PIC 'Rotten Tomatoes' from the Horse-based Movie 'Seabiscuit']
THERE IS A U.S AIR FORCE BASE 'SANDIA' IN ALBUQUERQUE...DUDE...
AND MANY VICTIMS OF 'PROGRAMMING' ARE TO THIS DAY...
TOTALLY UNAWARE THAT THEY ARE VICTIMS...THE 'UNCONSCIOUS' OF COURSE
ALWAYS 'POINTS THE WAY' TO THE TRUTH...SEVERE CHILDHOOD TRAUMA PRODUCES A 'DEFENCE MECHANISM' IN THE PSYCHE THAT IS 'ACTIVATED' . 'DUPLEX' -THE 'AVENGING ANGEL'..THAT TRIES TO COMPLETELY ERADICATE ANY VESTIGES OF REPRESSED MEMORY...UNTIL RE-ACTIVATED THROUGH VARIOUS ESOTERICA METHODOLOGY...HYPNOTISM COMBINED WITH ENTHEOGENS ETC
THERE IS A 1938 BROADWAY PLAY CALLED 'THE FABULOUS INVALID'
IT'S NOW ALSO A THEATRE TERM USED BY ACTORS FOR THE THEATRE ITSELF
SO THE 'BLB' THEATRE IN MINNESOTA IS ACTUALLY THE REAL 'BIG' LEBOWSKI.
ARCHITECTURE DUDE...ARCHITECTURE...'ROADHOUSE' [THE MOVIE] MUST BE SOMEHOW INVOLVED AS GAZZARA HUDDLESTON AND ELLIOTT ALL HAD ROLES..
[ THERE'S ANOTHER PLAY FROM 1939 CALLED 'SHERRY'....]
FARCE INDEED
DR FEELGOOD IS A DRUG [HEROIN] SLANG TERM..BUT IT IS ALSO THE NAME OF A BRITISH ROCK GROUP FRONTED BY NOW DECEASED WILKO JOHNSON.
SOME OF THE SONG TITLES THIS GROUP PRODUCED ARE INHERENT IN 'LEBOWSKI'
'DOWN AT THE DOCTORS' ....'MILK AND ALCOHOL'
'CHEQUE BOOK!' .....[FOR MANY OTHERS SEE WIKI DISCOGRAPHY] THIS ONE BELOW..
THIS SITE GIVES SOME HEROIN STREET TERMS-'GUTTER' BEING A VEIN [INJECTING]ETC
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