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To: Right_Wing_Madman; Hot Tabasco; golux
That's a great page, thanks. I'll be spending some time over there.

The kid in me was immediately drawn to the description (and diagram) at the outset...

Particles move through dense barriers effortlessly as if barriers do not exist at all. Quantum tunnelling is a phenomenon where a subatomic particle or atom can be present on the opposite side of the physical obstacle that is normally impossible for the particle to infiltrate. This is as if a person is...

Gumby! That's him.

"He can walk into any book with his pony pal Pokey too. If you have a heart then Gumby's a part of you."

Gumby Theme Song 1967 remastered HD

Art Clokey was a true visionary.

Gumby In and Out of Books

In many episodes, Gumby is in a toy store playing with other toys and books. Gumby, Pokey, and their fellow adventurers are able to go in and out of the books and explore different environments and times in history. We wondered if this was done to promote literacy or imagination. Art surprised us, again.

“The books were a gimmick, you might say, for getting out of the toy shop and into another world or another setting. That’s the main reason we used them, not to encourage kids to read. That’s the way they are using these parts of our stories now, which is good. But at that time, it was just a gimmick for getting us out of the toy store and back into the toy store from the book. It turned out to be a beautiful device.”

The traveling into and out of inanimate objects did not stop with books for Gumby.

“In one of the early episodes we had a musical note that was magic. We animated the note and its stem to fly through and into a 78 RPM record. It vanished into a music-land in the record the same way Gumby could vanish into a book. When the videocassette came along we had it go into videocassettes, and we’ll be going into computers in the computer age.”

https://www.gumbyworld.com/gumby-characters/gumby/gumby-pokey-in-and-out-of-books/


6 posted on 08/05/2023 4:28:39 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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To: golux; SJackson; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; Phinneous
Well I suppose it's a bit of a diversion but as a very small child, I was absolutely fascinated to watch Gumby turn aside in order to effortlessly slip into the books. It was my main (more like only) reason for watching the show, so the "quantum tunneling" concept really hits home.

Linking with the musical theme of the constellation,

The traveling into and out of inanimate objects did not stop with books for Gumby. We animated the note and its stem to fly through and into a 78 RPM record. It vanished into a music-land in the record the same way Gumby could vanish into a book.

78 RPM. It's like 78 REM, because 78 equals a word with many permutations and meanings (e.g. malach* ♪, lechem). He dreamed, חָלַם, or as

חֲלֹם!‏

(to a man) dream!

REM:

"Rapid eye movement sleep (REM sleep or REMS) is a unique phase of sleep in humans, mammals and birds, characterized by random rapid movement of the eyes, accompanied by low muscle tone throughout the body, and the propensity of the sleeper to dream vividly."

A well-known saying is that the eyes are the windows to the soul, but how many people consider this especially applicable... for when the eyes are *closed.*

Well now, this really isn't off topic at all. In fact, it loops back to what Bilaam was going on about with his parables, of having an open eye [שתם העין] (but the odd word also indicates that it's closed).

Enter through Klein's:

שֶֽׁתֶם m.n. PBH 1 a hole. NH 2 (hidden) entrance into a cave. [From שׁתם.]

This ring nebula certainly led into a productive zone. I always find the best stuff merely by wandering around, "aimlessly" from most perspectives, but there you have it.

* "But I am living still."

(Join the Navi, see the world.)

Can you believe that Joseph was hated for his dreams? Hated! I can believe it.

10 posted on 08/05/2023 5:30:17 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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