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Caterpillar
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I don't think this game has anthing at all to do with 9/11 - the mention of the wall was simply a landmark, like everything else.

Speaking of cats and "Flame Job":

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This morning, for instance, I saw a housecat in Hell. On E. 2nd St. there's a funky little store called "Flame Job". I've never been by when they are open so I'm not sure what it is exactly that they sell but their window stars a red Devil Girl mannequin sprouting these really long horns. She's wearing a black leather halter top and a pendant featuring an upside down pentacle with a severed goat's head superimposed on it. There's a neon sign that says "EVIL" and the entire window is framed in electric flames. This morning a very unselfconscious black and white house cat made itself at home within that tableau. The whole effect was a little disconcerting because the cat sat perfectly still and just ever too close to the windows' glass. She was a ridiculous, mysterious and creepy Sphinx.


Why doesn't someone just call the palm reader and ask if there's a Nicole there? I wouldn't give any more information than that however...but if you want to make sure you're going to the right place.

And isn't it a note you're looking for as opposed to a package?
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You will get someone to go. They will walk in the shop. Her ears will perk up when they mention my name. She will hand them a note which I will never read and part of me will never hold.


ETA: Hmmm.... a note and a package? Both at the Palm Reader's?
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I see you - under the awning, carrying a package that I secretly know is for me. You hesitate. Are you scared of what she might say? Of what your future holds? Of what it doesn't?


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danteIL
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Map

Because I'm a visual person, I created an annotated Google map documenting BA's dreamland adventures:

http://tinyurl.com/2jh9nm

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Caterpillar
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Arabic Speaker wrote:

Original: yakshof lana al majul

Hard to be sure, but if we disregard the vowels you have here, it might possibly be:

yakshif lana al-majaal

which would mean something like "He reveals to us the area"


Arabic Speaker wrote:
Original: yakshof lana al majul

Going back to the first sentence, I have had second thoughts about the last word, which I think might be "majhuul".

This would then translate as "He reveals to us the unknown"


The latest CL spells it closer to the word Arabic Speaker thought it was... and it makes sense in context.

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When you come out, the package is gone. Was it for her or did you leave it behind? Curious, I ask as you pass by me. You can't hear me. You shouldn't hear me. But you do. And you quietly purr

yakshof lana al majhul
He reveals to us the unknown

I go to see for myself. I try to open the door. It's locked.


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danteIL
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When you come out, the package is gone. Was it for her or did you leave it behind? Curious, I ask as you pass by me. You can't hear me. You shouldn't hear me. But you do. And you quietly purr

yakshof lana al majhul


So given the cat motif, is 'purr' supposed to be taken literally?

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Caterpillar
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I'm not sure a cat could carry a package, so not too literally I suppose, but I doubt the word was chosen without thought to the theme.

....but then again we don't really know enough about the situation, maybe he's a man/shape shifting cat within her dreamscape...who knows. Dunno

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tipsila
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In 1852 city law forbade burial within Manhattan, and subsequent interments have been made in Queens.

Thousands of skeletons and coffins exhumed from Manhattan churchyards were ferried over the river. Between the 1850s until the early 1900s, more than 35,000 bodies were transferred to Cypress Hills Cemetery. Shocked

There are only several small cemeteries scattered through Manhattan. The two Marble Cemeteries (one accessible only from a gate on 2nd Avenue between 2nd and 3rd Streets and not open to the public, the other on 2nd St, between 1st and 2nd Avenues), and three belonging to the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue, Shearith Israel.

  • The First Cemetery of Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue, Shearith Israel, at St. James Place just off Chatham Square in Chinatown. This cemetery dates to 1683.

  • Tucked between loft buildings and across the street from the School Of Visual Arts on West 21st St just off 6th Avenue is the Third Cemetery of the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue, Shearith Israel. It dates to 1829.

  • Hidden away on West 11th Street just east of 6th Avenue (Greenwich Village) is the Second Cemetery of Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue, Shearith Israel.



Burials began at the 11th Street site in 1805, in what was a much larger, square plot extending into what is now the street. The Commissioners' Plan had established the city's grid in 1811, but not until 1830 was West 11th Street cut through, at that time reducing the cemetery to its present tiny triangle. The disturbed plots were moved further uptown to the Third Cemetery on West 21st Street.

Willensky and White's AIA Guide to New York City:

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According to legend, the location of the red-bricked building abutting the cemetery has an unusual history of its own. On the site of that building, there was a Civil war tavern known as the "Grapevine". Many Union officers went there including many southern spies, and many incognito newspaper reporters.

Of course everyone knew that everyone else was evesdropping on converstions there, so the tavern became known as the place where many rumors originated.


http://kansascity.craigslist.org/mis/325091743.html
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A heavy mist hung in the air, spilling through the iron fence, and meeting me at the road. I followed the path to the forgotten angel. The tangling vines hung over the stones, their leaves drooping under the weight of the air.


http://harrisonburg.craigslist.org/mis/324699068.html
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You: In the Village in the City
Me: Trying to get there

I fought through the hostile crowd as I ran towards the village in the city. ...


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poeticexplosion
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Wow, some really good thoughts with the whole Alphabet City thing! I hope we're on the right track so you all don't make a trip for nothing.

And Tipsila, I knew that last post had to be from you even before I looked at who wrote it. Laughing
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sinyx
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You know what to do. You will get someone to go. They will walk in the shop. Her ears will perk up when they mention my name. She will hand them a note which I will never read and part of me will never hold.


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I see you - under the awning, carrying a package that I secretly know is for me. - When you come out, the package is gone. Was it for her or did you leave it behind? - I go to see for myself. I try to open the door. It's locked. Hours of operation: 10am - 2am. I look at the time, it's 2:15.


So are we looking for a note or a package or both? Are they in the same place? Should whoever goes ask for Nicole or say they left a package there by mistake? Maybe it's got B.A. Saint Feline written on it?

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So are we looking for a note or a package or both? Are they in the same place? Should whoever goes ask for Nicole or say they left a package there by mistake? Maybe it's got B.A. Saint Feline written on it?


I would ask for a package first and if they don't have one, then ask for a note. I also wouldn't claim that I left a package by mistake, I would stick to the story in the text - a friend left it there for someone (or something to that effect) -and use all the names we can think of until we get something.

If someone has a package for us, they will be willing to give it if we come up with the right information.

About cemeteries - there are two in lower manhattan that I am pretty sure have nothing to do with this - the one at St. Paul's Chapel and the one at Trinity Church (Wall Street) - for movie fans Trinity Church was the church used in the movie Treasure Hunters. I'm fairly familiar with both of these cemeteries and neither one has an angel sculpture that I can recall. St. Paul's I'm sure doesn't.

There is also the African Burying Ground National Monument, but, again it isn't in the correct area of town.

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I don't think this game has anthing at all to do with 9/11 - the mention of the wall was simply a landmark, like everything else.

Is this a specific wall? Either way, I just think there are other ways to show you mean New York, particularly if you've got a story about nightmares of a city being destroyed. I can see that 9/11 calls up specific images and emotions that they may use to help create an atmosphere in their game. I'm not saying it is about 9/11 at all, just my opinion that they might have found other references. Heck, the first time I saw the word "Duane" I knew that they meant NYC. But only because there is a Duane Reade on about every corner here, they are almost as ubiquitous as Starbucks. Of course, you guys were way ahead of me. Wink
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danteIL
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rose wrote:
Heck, the first time I saw the word "Duane" I knew that they meant NYC. But only because there is a Duane Reade on about every corner here, they are almost as ubiquitous as Starbucks.


I think BA agrees with you about "Duane" Smile
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People come to him and, if they don't, they can find another on another corner. There's no end to the market here - people looking for an escape, a quick cure or little trinket to kill the pain and make the place seem more like home.


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sinyx wrote:
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You know what to do. You will get someone to go. They will walk in the shop. Her ears will perk up when they mention my name. She will hand them a note which I will never read and part of me will never hold.


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I see you - under the awning, carrying a package that I secretly know is for me. - When you come out, the package is gone. Was it for her or did you leave it behind? - I go to see for myself. I try to open the door. It's locked. Hours of operation: 10am - 2am. I look at the time, it's 2:15.


So are we looking for a note or a package or both? Are they in the same place? Should whoever goes ask for Nicole or say they left a package there by mistake? Maybe it's got B.A. Saint Feline written on it?


So who's going and how fast can you get there? Very Happy I called Nicky's Deli yesterday, they are open today Sunday, but closed on Mondays.
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So who's going and how fast can you get there? Very Happy I called Nicky's Deli yesterday, they are open today Sunday, but closed on Mondays.

Is it Nicky's or the tarot lady? Or maybe we don't know?
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Caterpillar wrote:
I'm not sure a cat could carry a package, so not too literally I suppose, but I doubt the word was chosen without thought to the theme.

....but then again we don't really know enough about the situation, maybe he's a man/shape shifting cat within her dreamscape...who knows. Dunno


Reminds me of a video I saw once so I found it on YouTube, Cat with Hands along with a poem about dreams.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq3EsyotORM

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rose wrote:
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So who's going and how fast can you get there? Very Happy I called Nicky's Deli yesterday, they are open today Sunday, but closed on Mondays.

Is it Nicky's or the tarot lady? Or maybe we don't know?


Well it seems to me that it may depend on whether the tarot lady has a red awning or not:
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Waiting for the light, you ask if I'm lost. I try to explain that I lost a friend and thought he might be here. As we cross, you point up the street to the red awning.

"Ask for Nicole. She knows things."


We know that the tarot reader has an awning:
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I see you - under the awning, carrying a package that I secretly know is for me.


and we know that Nicky's has a red awning: http://yearinfood.blogspot.com/2005/01/jan_08.html

However, if the Palm Reader has a red awning too, then that may make more likely that she's the one.

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To keep this thread just about the ads on craigslist, I have split it at the point at which the package was retrieved. Please visit the new thread to discuss the package contents.

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