When i said the watering can's status changed from normal to magical to me, i was only half serious and also half joking.
But this reminded me of the Philip K **** book 'Ubik' in which normal, unassuming innocuous items are really secretly infused with magic powers. I can't really explain the book that well, but there are these commercials and a spray can that secretly restores-revitalizes the world back from entropy. **** talks about this in his Exegesis which i am still reading periodically.
Anyways, so i look it up, and am find a passage online from his book 'Valis' (the book written from and also during 'Exegesis') which is semi-autobiographical novel about his mystical experience, the psyche wards and mental illness that went along with it.
Check out this little snippet from 'Valis'; (bolded parts by me)
"There was information transfer," I said.
"In the film?" Kevin said. "As story line? Or do you mean from the film and audio track to the audience?"
"I'm not sure I understand --" I began.
"There is subliminal material in that film," Kevin said."The next time I see it I'm taking a battery-powered cassette tape recorder in with me. I think the information is encoded in Mini's Synchronicity Music, his random music.. (...)
"Did you notice the pot?" Kevin said. "On Nicholas Brady's desk. The little clay pot -- like the one you have, the pot that girl --"
"Stephanie," Fat said.
"-- made for you."
"No," Fat said. "I didn't notice it. There were a lot of details in the film that kept coming at me so fast, at the audience so fast, I mean."
"I didn't notice the pot the first time," Kevin said. "It shows up in different places; not just on Brady's desk but one time in President Fremount's office, way over in the corner, where only your peripheral vision picks it up. It shows up in different parts of the Lamptons' house; for example in the living room. And in that one scene where Eric Lampton is staggering around he knocks against things and --"
"The pitcher ," I said.
"Yes," Kevin said. "It also appears as a pitcher. Full of water. Linda Lampton takes it out of the refrigerator."
"No, that was just an ordinary plastic pitcher," Fat said.
"Wrong," Kevin said. "It was the pot again."
"How could it be the pot again if it was a pitcher?" Fat said.
"At the beginning of the film," Kevin said. "On the parched field. Off to one side; it only registers subliminally unless you're deliberately watching for it. The design on the pitcher is the same as the design on the pot. A woman is dipping it into a creek, a very small, mostly dried-up creek."
I said, "It seemed to me that the Christian fish sign appeared on it once. As the design."
"No," Kevin said emphatically.
"No?" I said.
"I thought so, too, the first time," Kevin said. "This time I looked closer. You know what it is? The double helix."
"That's the DNA molecule," I said.
"Right," Kevin said, grinning. "In the form of a repeated design running around the top of the pitcher."
We all remained silent for a time and then I said, "DNA memory. Gene-pool memory."
I used to own the book Valis, but my friend, who also was in and out of pysche wards after his own specific psycho-spiritual experiences, was the last person i lent it to, and he lost it, or a friend of his might still have it.
He told me about a 'vision' he had once about staring at a cleaning spray bottle and how it looked magical and shimmering and special somehow. (he was 'on something') According to his retelling of the tale, the words or a voice i can't remember came to him at that moment that were;
"the significance of insignificance, and the insignificance of significance." And it was a windex bottle. Cleaning spray product, just like the spray can from 'Ubik', which is sometimes on the cover of that book depending on what version/printed edition.
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Anyways, i realize a water pitcher is not a watering can, so i am reaching again probably. Welcome to my obsessive zone of follow the synchronicities lol. Don't worry i'm not going mad, just drawing associations out loud a bit here. I'll leave it at that for now.