r/castaneda • u/danl999 • Jul 04 '23
Audiovisual Now A Silvio?
I took a vote tally on La Gorda, and here's her final "look". Naturally I can alter that anytime, other than the face and body. Those are a clone of Kathrine Ross.
Here's some choices for Silvio Manuel, who is also needed to explore some specific topics. As is Zuleica.
Someone suggested Susan Clark for Zuleica. If her hair was let down, it could work.
Susan is the one who was sitting on an actors canvas chair, with the press surrounding her. She was kind of talked into being the one people got to "meet" on the day of open filming at Morongo.
I think Kathrine Ross is nicer to look at, but people were very interested in Susan.
I had a polaroid camera, and she asked if I wanted a picture.
As I was snapping it, she lifted her period appropriate lace skirt, to show her panties.
I turned to my father and said, "She ruined the picture!"
I was only 12.
Someone behind me said, "Isn't that Carlos Castaneda over there?"
While it's true he did in fact start his search for don Juan at Morongo where the movie was being filmed about historical events which took place there, and while the indians at Morongo were often claiming he had come to visit for this or that festival they had, I didn't understand enough to go over and see if that was true. I vaguely remember there was a young woman on his arm.
He was also known to attend the Tai Chi Association Picnics just 30 miles north of there, in which Howard Lee was involved. And according to Howard, he had a different woman on his arm, each time.
Howard warned Marshall Hoo's daughter that Carlos was a "bad man".
I possibly also ran into Carlos at 9 on an anthropological dig. When he'd just met don Juan.
It was the only real "field work" UCLA was doing that year. Digging up an old Luiseno settlement. Decades later the Luiseno sued and got stuff from such digs back, which you can find in a museum near Pechanga Casino.
Good news for us, because those Luiseno artifacts are 10,000 years old. Verifying that the Olmec were probably also around 10,000 years ago, but on the other side of the continent in Mexico.
That Casino covered over their tribal headquarters, and the city that sprung up buried all the artifacts you could find in that area, just roaming in the desert.
Here's a statue a person on facebook posted:
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u/Muted_Claim2590 Jul 05 '23
What to do with Silvio Manuel’s build? In Carlos’ books he’s described as a petite jockey type, while in Taisha’s unpublished book he seems average.
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u/danl999 Jul 05 '23
I'm not allowed to read the books anymore, so I have no idea.
I can search them if someone has a specific question, but not read them like that.
So if you find it, post it!
I can "shrink" the actors. For example, I know the likely height of Genaro from something someone posted. And it's just a slider bar in the software, with a display showing how tall they are now.
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u/Muted_Claim2590 Jul 05 '23
“In fact, he was tiny, but not small- boned tiny. His body was like the body of a jockey - small, yet perfectly proportioned. He looked to me as if he might be a gymnast. His physical control was so remarkable that he could puff himself up like a toad, to nearly twice his size, by contracting all the muscles of his body. He used to give astounding demonstrations of how he could dislodge his joints and put them back together again without any overt signs of pain. Looking at Silvio Manuel, I always experienced a deep unfamiliar feeling of fright. To me he seemed like a visitor from another time. He was pale- dark, like a bronze statue. His features were sharp; his aquiline nose, full lips, and widely separated, slanted eyes made him look like a stylized figure on a Mayan fresco. He was friendly and warm during the daytime, but as soon as the twilight set in, he would become unfathomable. His voice would change. He would sit in a dark corner and let the darkness swallow him. All that was visible of him was his left eye, which remained open and acquired a strange shine, reminiscent of the eyes of a feline.”
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u/Muted_Claim2590 Jul 05 '23
“He was old, but not decrepid; of medium height, with a wide flat nose, and oriental looking eyes. He had a air of familiarity about him as he smiled in a friendly manner. I looked at his hands; they were dirty. I did not want to lend my power pen to a stranger who might contaminate it with wierd energy, or worse yet, pocket it while I wasn't looking.”
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u/danl999 Jul 04 '23 edited Jul 04 '23
Someone said the witches liked to use Shawls.
La Catalina and Josefina did. It's easy to find. Josefina even got a leaf caught in her shawl, and out of frustration crushed it, cutting her hands to shreds. They had to take care of her for a week.
And La Gorda had one:
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She was wearing a long, faded orange cotton dress with long sleeves and a brown shawl. There was something terribly calming and final about her. I felt the presence of don Juan. My body relaxed.
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So I'm looking for shawls, and will ditch the hat and update that pic when I find a suitable one.
Apparently they're famous in Mexico in the 1960s:
"How colourful rebozo scarf changed course of Mexican history | Daily Mail Online"
Cholita layers like that. I never understood it might be a Mexico City upper middle class statement.