Castle Rock is a place in the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding. Its a literary reference to a corrupted seat of power.
Its an excellent book, I will sum it up quickly for you here.
Plot is a group of schoolkids get shipwrecked on a tropical island, and need to build a nation to survive on this New Land. Before long, they fracture into 2 groups - the rational who want to be disciplined, free and prosperous ... and the assholes that want to run wild, and control everybody else's lives.
Early in the book, 2 of the leading characters discover a spot on the top of the cliff overlooking the sea, and name it Castle Rock.
The rational leader sees it as a nice spot, but doesn't like the potential for corruption that it represents.
Asshole leader sees it as the perfect place for a Fort. Eventually they split into 2 tribes, and Asshole leader collects together the savage kids, and sets up a throne on Castle Rock where they can rule the island.
At the end of the story, conflict between the groups ends up centering on Castle Rock, where Asshole leader has fortified the savages together, and forced the biggest and strongest kid to "stand guard" over Castle Rock, by guarding a great boulder set on a lever.
From their fort, they broadcast hate and threats for the "loser" kids who are not in awe of the king, and are not interested in playing their game.
At the last moment, an unexpected accident occurs, and one of the good kids gets killed due to the dumb mistakes of the Asshole kids.
When this happens, Asshole king - rather than face the fact their behaviour led to the death of an innocent kid, sets fire to the place, and blames it on the other leader.
Then they chase him into the jungle to try to kill him. The twist at the end of the story is that the careless fire that they set creates so much smoke that its enough to alert the Navy, which has until then been searching without luck for the lost generation of boys.
When the professional military turn up to rescue the kids, they set up Military Tribunal type thing to interrogate the kids and work out what happened. One by one, the savage kids burst into tears. to quote :
"They are transformed from murderous savages back into scared children. The quickness of the boys’ transformation suggests their experience on the island has been a form of mass hysteria they weren’t fully aware of as it was happening."
Interesting ...
Castle Rock = White House
Which kind of explains when Q wrote Castle Clean.
It might not be that simple
Castle Rock = seat of power
If I'm not mistaken Lord if the flies was also referenced in the movie White Squall . Which as we know Q directs us to that movie...for more than one reason .
Damn fine catch there ;)
Wow, that's amazing, great job...Made my night. I'll have to find the book.
I think he meant Fraggle Rock.
Followup on the original post -
Interesting that in recent times, the book has been denigrated for being a misogynst trashfest, because ... it proves that useless males left to their own devices are nothing but savages without the civilizing influence of leftist diversity.
https://crimereads.com/discovering-the-misogyny-behind-the-famous-plot-of-lord-of-the-flies/
Real life example recently
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/05/william_goldings_dystopian_lord_of_the_flies_gets_a_reality_rewrite.html
to quote: “The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months.” It turns out that nice boys, raised in a traditional Christian environment, survive surprisingly well."
Nah they kill one dude with sticks at night supposedly due to not being able to tell because of the dark. Then one kid (piggy) is like "that wasn't a monster", who later gets killed purposefully by the kid (roger?) From the boulder. Then they chase the main character.... idk weird book and it's dark.
rings a bell - because "the beast" out in the jungle copped a lot of blame for different happenings.
Will have to re-read it again one day soon.
There's another post on the 18th saying Castle Rock is not a place, but rather the name of an operation. The operation is a NG thing about continuity of government. Seemed to be the best explanation.
interesting - got more reading to follow up on that ?
Its an important point in terms of research, because its like one of the lastt things mentioned in all Q posts. Its the goalpost if you like.
Understanding the meaning of Castle Rock sheds some light for all of us.
https://greatawakening.win/p/11S0uVDz73/castle-rock-isnt-a-place-its-an-/c/
The comments gave it a thorough review.
Wow. Such a great summary and explanation. That makes a lot of sense. Thank you for clearing that up. I read the book in school but have long forgotten most of the details.
NICE.
I've only bought 2 or 3 books for my son over the years. About two months ago, I went to the used bookstore with the intention of buying him 1984 (or similar, I forget which book I was looking for). They didn't have it, so I asked if they had "Lord of the Flies". They did, and I bought it. I read it so long ago (1985?) that I completely forgot about Castle Rock. So many strange coincidences stacking up lately.
too true.
Unfortunately, the lefty edition that we were forced to read at school back then had an extra paragraph added at the end that didnt seem to fit the rest of the original book IMO.
Basically - after confessing to their crimes at the ad-hoc tribunal on the beach, instead of sentencing them death, the Naval Officer in Command has a moment of leftism himself, and confesses to the kids that while they have been busy on the island, the Adults in the real world have been busy warring amongst themselves too.
And then they all join hands and have a big girly cryfest on the beach and sing kum-ba-ya or something. Dont know, I might have been young at the time, but I refused to acknowledge the ending tacked on to an otherwise excellent book.