Wacky cOLOLUts

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Like Penny, I woke up this morning listening to my subcon,
and what I heard was music to my ears.  It was just five
notes, mind you (so is Personality), but it was the five
notes from the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind
that someone mentioned waybackwhen.  And just as Slothrop
groggily went over different ways of stressing the Lindy
and Never and the Kenosha Kid in that drug-induced ep in
GR, I sounded out the five notes differently.

Well, something clicked, or at least something in my mind
wanted me to find a similarity - a connection - and, well,
rememebr when I wrote, 'I leave you with this to ponder:
Herodotus says that loud cries of triumph, ololu ololu are
sounded to Athena.  Compare this to the OED's etymo of owl:
(latin) ulula.'  Well, I guess I was the only one doing the
pondering.  Try and say ololu or ulula really slow and tell
me what it sounds like.  Go ahead - if anyone hears you
they'll just think you're nuts.  Go on:  ah-dl-ah-dl-ew,
ah-dl-ah-dl-ew.  Or:  ew-dl-ew-dl-ah, ew-dl-ew-dl-ah.  It
sounds alot like those notes that alien ship was bellowing
out, or was it our scientists who iniatated the discourse,
I don't remember.  It sure would be interesting to know how
those particular notes got chosen for the movie.

All I know is this: if you summon them, they will come.  I
wouldn't be at all surprised if there is some physiological
reaction in the brain that reroutes memory neurons or some
shit when the anamolous notes start going neologistic.  I
know I came away from CEofTK wanting to believe it happened.
Could it be that I shared in the hallucination that Richard
Dreyfuss and I-forget-the-actress and all those scientists
did, a mass hallucination that still goes on now, whenever
someone hears those notes' echo, or something similar, like
the phrase Wacky Coconuts, or Personality.  I feel something
different inside me when I say or think Wacky Coconuts,
compared if I did neologistic or hallucination.

But how does one forget the experience ever happened?  Is
there a sequence of sounds that could erase it.  If no one
would have heard the song Wacky Coconuts, would any of us
have been able to experience Vineland, the plane incident,
with the same I've-been-in-that-situation-before-and-it's-
not-just-because-I've-read-this-book-several-times feeling?

The French never could get it right:  Eu-la-la.
I'll stick with ah-dl-ah-dl-ew and 'keep my eyes on the
skies' all the time thinking, 'The World is all the...

You know the rest.

Th-Th-Th-Th-That's OWL folks,
Rick/West