Sunday, April 12, 2015

Paul Almond RIIP: 7up and dnL

The Deaths in 2015 lists under April 10:
Paul Almond, 83, Canadian film director (The Act of the HeartIsabel), heart disease
There's much ado surrounding the heart where Paul Almond is concerned and it's not just that he died of heart disease and was renown for his film "The Act of the Heart".  Note the following etymology of his surname:
almond (n.)  ... Medieval Latin by influence of amandus "loveable," ... 
One of his films stands out to me as having particular inner twin influence:
Note from the films wiki page
  • A new version was started in 2000, 7Up 2000 (2000, Julian Farino), continuing with 14 Up 2000 in 2007 and 21 Up: New Generation in 2014.
  • Original airing: 13 April
Tomorrow is April 13, the never versions anniversary.  

So our next lead is the 7 Up soda, note the following info on its creator: 
 Charles Leiper Grigg (May 11, 1868 – April 16, 1940) was the inventor of Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime soda, better known by its later name, 7 Up.
I found this excerpt from 7up's wiki page interesting in an "About-Face" pattern-cluster sort of way:  
dnL / 7 Upside Down dnL The product's name came from the fact that the "dnL" logo is the "7 Up" logo turned upside-down. The product itself was also, in many ways, the opposite of 7 Up: while 7 Up is caffeine-free, colorless, and comes in a green bottle, dnL contained caffeine and was an unusual shade of green (vaguely similar to the green of 7 Up's bottle) in a clear bottle. And while 7 Up has a fairly standard lemon-lime flavor, the "citrus" flavor of dnL is that of lime-lemon, (primarily lime flavored with a hint of lemon).[30]
Actually it's upside down and partially reversed, sort of a "mirror image and upside down"; fully reversed (except the n) gives us bnL; upside down and reversing the 7 and p, it would then be "Lnd" ... which reminds me of either "Lend", Land" and/or "Lind"... as in Linda.  7up being upside down and reversed gives us dnL a cryptic "down elle"... elle being the inner twin matriarchal world.  Note the etymology of Linda:
 Originally a medieval short form of Germanic names containing the elementlinde meaning "soft, tender". It also coincides with the Spanish word lindameaning "beautiful".
So we get "soft, lovable heart".   

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