The Therapy Zone

Dance Of The Dead

    No.6 sits on an outlook on top of the cliffs tuning in the pocket transistor radio. Suddenly he picks up a transmission, it's a message which begins "Tonight when the moon rises, the whole world will turn to silver. I have a message for you....................." As No.6 listens to the message there comes a point when the voice on the radio asks "Do you understand? It is important that you understand." Well of course No.6 doesn't understand, yet there is no ambiguity about who the message was for. Because the radio message is not meant for No.6, but the man No.6 found dead, and washed up on the beach, who I believe was No.34 who the Supervisor told the Observer-No.240 was dead.

   So having listened to the radio message, No.6 goes down onto the beach looking for a light, a ship, a plane, someone from his world. But of course there is no sign because as it stated in the radio message, "The appointment cannot be fulfilled. There are more important things which must be done tonight." It would seem that with No.34 the Village had a "plant" within it's confines, but "they" got to him first, before No.34 could receive the message that whoever it was coming, is no longer cming to The Village. A message which clearly seems that No.34 has been abandoned by whoever, and for whatever reason, to his own devices in The Village. Just who was behind the voice, and from where the transmitted message originated, and what it was that No.34 had originally expected to happen, and who exactly was No.34 is where the ambiguity lies.

No.113

  Was an old woman in a wheelchair - she died a month ago. That is the information disclosed by No.2 to the Supervisor-No.28 during ‘Hammer Into Anvil.’ Well if No.113 was an old woman in a wheelchair who died a month ago, did No.113 {who contributed to The Tally Ho in Free For All} share the same fate?

  I only ask, because in the graveyard of ‘Hammer Into Anvil’ we actually see a headstone with the number 113 carved upon it. So if the former No.113 had died, what was on his head stone? Because if the No.113 was re-issued to this old woman who died a month ago, that means there would be two headstones with 113 carved on them in the graveyard! And going one further, if someone dies with a particular number and that number is not re-issued, what was No.113 of hammer Into Anvil doing with such a number? Unless of course No.113 of ‘Free For All’ was promoted, or demoted to another number, or something!

   There's a proverb "When your in a hole stop digging!"

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