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Post by me9 on Apr 25, 2020 14:44:33 GMT -5
Just heavy loads and water high - dalneitzel.com/2017/02/08/forrest-gets-mail-13/You guys seem to be hung up on waterfalls. Don’t try to change my poem to fit your ideas. That response from Forrest tells me it is unlikely any part of the poem is a waterfall. |
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Post by Jenny on Apr 25, 2020 15:58:10 GMT -5
I've always loved that line to hint to a waterfall (in some hidden canyon).....but there are lots of other options.... and lately I've been thinking 'heavy loads' is the Chest and Contents itself, with a 'Water High' to be a water source/lake/etc. above 7000 feet (remember Forrest's stumble of above 5000 feet with almost saying 7000).....
Not saying I feel 'Water High' is Yellowstone Lake, but this quote about it makes me feel it is something similar:
Situated at 7,733 feet (2,357 m) above sea level, Yellowstone Lake is the largest high elevation lake (above 7,000 feet / 2,134 m) in North America.
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Post by coreyj on Apr 25, 2020 18:13:34 GMT -5
I think a lot of people do get hung up on waterfalls. However, in my war for me what stands out about the waterfall; and this is a consistent theme for Forrest, is the rainbow produced by the waterfall and not necessarily the waterfall itself. Anyway, that's my 2c
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Post by Jenny on Apr 27, 2020 18:55:08 GMT -5
I had just posted in another thread about the many colors of Tea (black, green, and red) in the one TTOTC chapter. The colors change..... hint to fall? waterfall?
But as Me9 points out in the quote above.....Forrest doesn't seem to like it when people think his poem refers to a waterfall......
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Post by Jenny on Apr 30, 2020 18:14:49 GMT -5
Adding for reference... Some feel the heavy loads and water high might be linked to 'Quake' incident... As heavy loads went down, it caused the water to rise and go over the dam... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_Lake |
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Post by davebakedpotato on May 3, 2020 2:12:20 GMT -5
I had just posted in another thread about the many colors of Tea (black, green, and red) in the one TTOTC chapter. The colors change..... hint to fall? waterfall? But as Me9 points out in the quote above.....Forrest doesn't seem to like it when people think his poem refers to a waterfall...... This quote makes me lean towards water high being a lake or river rather than a waterfall, but that's personal bias I think: "What is wrong with me just riding my bike out there and throwing it in the “water high” when I am through with it?" |
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2020 6:20:59 GMT -5
I think "Just heavy loads and water high" is the part where you have to be wise. The poem reads: If you've been wise, which is something you've just been over and that is the "Just heavy loads and water high" line. And more than likely, "There'll be no paddle up your creek" is very contiguous to the JHLAWH line. Something happens at 12pm that has to do with water. It might be a sort of EBB effect, or something underground that creates this marvel that we gaze. When it stops, we have peace and take the chest. In my opinion, this would be a literal reading of the poem and may just be far fetched, but on the other hand maybe not? This seems to make the blaze, the entire 4th stanza with the 3rd stanza as your contiguous guide?
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Post by gnossos on May 4, 2020 13:38:59 GMT -5
"Could water high be a spring?"
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Post by Jenny on May 5, 2020 9:49:51 GMT -5
"Could water high be a spring?" Oh... great idea... The source of a creek/spring/river is the 'highest water' (of that particular flow)........ a wellspring.... |
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Post by gnossos on May 5, 2020 13:22:18 GMT -5
AND....could "Heavy Loads" be the same thing as "Water high"?
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Post by flyjack on May 5, 2020 14:41:03 GMT -5
Lots of interpretations..
Heavy loads could be pressure,, and water high = Geyser
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Post by Jenny on May 28, 2020 6:07:31 GMT -5
When Forrest created the clues, he had in mind what 'heavy loads' and 'water high' referred to...... he might not have realized the many other interpretations that could come from those words..... and that is why he doesn't understand why searchers 'get hung up on a waterfall'....to him he sees those clues clearly to imply something else....
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Post by jdiggins on May 28, 2020 8:36:49 GMT -5
Water falls= rain
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2020 9:01:39 GMT -5
I've always thought that the heavy loads being carried back to my car would make the warm waters high start flowing again. I may not be looking for one, but if I find it some water is gonna fall. (:
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