The Blog In Yellow

I've been quiet due to research. There's so much I need to wrap my head around that takes me wonder if I'm smart enough to do it. There's philosophy, psychology, and the intricate nature of plays that I need to understand. I think I'm going too deep, deep enough to go into the origin of story telling. 

One of the themes I'm trying to use is the world as a play. The original book The King in Yellow uses the King's robes as a curtain on a stage. Another example is the misty lakes which would be made on stages with dry ice and water. For me I'm using the curtains of our eyelids and I'm a flashlight representing a limelight. More to follow.

Something strange happened this week. I turned a year older, that is not strange, and I received a physical copy of The King in Yellow. It may seem strange but I've been listening to the audio version of the book. The hard copy should give me more insight.

I've made a breakthrough. You've likely heard of the Yellow Sign, a common trope in the King in Yellow and Lovecraft universe. Artists have designated it as a symbol. Specifically, it looks like an askew question mark with extra appendages. But the phrase is wrong. It's not Yellow sign but Yellow signs. The King is described as a figure in a pallid mask and tattered yellow robes but Yellow and White make their presence throughout the stories. Case in point, the current story I'm reading, The Street of the Four Winds describes a cat with yellow eyes that licks a marble bowl clean. The yellow eyes are an obvious nod but the marble bowl is white. White like a mask.  If we go back further into the story The Prophet's Paradise, we see a clown that marvels at his own pale mask. He then turns to death and who asks who has a paler mask than death.  Again, we see the symbolism of white and pale. The King's presence us there. I think that the sign is not a central concept...