The SynchBoardExcerpt, Chapter 22
Friday, 14-Apr-2000206.154.8.30 writes:
(original journal entry composed atop Riddle Knob, North Carolina...April 05, 2000)
.....In essence, McGlumphy saw Fawcett as a New Eve, and Planet X (using the Earth-Pluto octave again) as a New Eden. The latter became overlapped, in Darwins's mind, with his adopted hometown of Hinton, WV. At the mouth of Madam Creek on the edge of the downtown area, where it meets up with the New River, he would symbolically recreate the union of Adam and Eve in his faucet sculpture on a projecting rock. Thus modified, the rock becomes the proverbial kitchen sink, the forgotten aspect of Mars left on Earth, as in *Brave Little Toaster Goes To Mars.* A remerger occurs between Sun/Adam and Moon/Eve, the kitchen sink (Faucet, i.e., rib) is recovered, and a New Eden ensues.
.....On the morning of April 2nd, I personally explored the entirety of Madam Creek, starting at Pluto and ending in Hinton, at Faucet Rock. Hinton, according to Darwin's mythology, is the first area beyond the limits of the solar system as defined by Raleigh (County). Thus in these terms, Madam Creek, source to mouth, connects Pluto (Pluto) with Planet X (Hinton). The tumbling, rocky creek hides, along its course, several smaller examples of Darwin's art, including a literal miniature city of small black marble cubes, an inner sanctum Darwin connects with the lonely black void between planets. Faucet Rock, in contrast, is a resurfacing into the light, a recentering through harmonic balance of opposites.
.....While McGlumphy didn't know of the works of Eckerd when originally formulating his mythology (obviously!), it can be seen to strongly resonate with the latter's Cairo beanstalk, and its fulfilled purpose as a connector between Earth and Mars (again using the Earth-Mars/Pluto-Planet X parallels). This fulfillment occurs in Eckerd's final novel, [omit title]. And it is also interesting that the society of Mars described in Eckerd's last novel is based upon that of Oz, first outlined in *The Wonderful Wizard of Oz* published only the year before. Eckerd consciously associated Baum's Oz with his Mars, seeing Dorothy's flying house as a spaceship, and the tornado as a launching device directly related to the Cairo beanstalk.
.....It is, however, the death of Eckerd that remains oblique to me, after the beanstalk is subsequently chopped down and Mars is, once again, separated from Earth. I have thus come to this lonely place seeking answers, to resonate with the spirit of Riddle and Cleveland and others as to the mechanisms of synchronicity...and of death itself. Who needs Idaho! I am home again.
Booker T.