meta - grocery bag treasure postgame
So we’ve seen all the individual items from the grocery bag of splendor. I admit that when I was analyzing them, I treated each as if it were a solitary item, devoid of context—a serial parade of one-offs. Was I naive to do so? Perhaps, and so let me make amends by offering herein a more inclusive discussion of, not the items as individuals, but the grocery bag contents as a gestalt.
First, the manifest:
- little blue (jewelry?) box
- stained lacy thing
- shower clock radio
- another clock radio
- terry net bathband
- pink happy candle
- two makeup kits
- uninflated globe
- motivational stickers
So: two clock radios; two items-with-mirrors (the jewelry box, the mirrored shower radio); two makeup kits; two adornment-related items (jewelry box, pair of makeup kits); two shower items (shower radio, terry net bathband); two hundreds of motivational stickers; two stains on the lacy thing; and, at last, two-candle container—with only one candle!
Twos everywhere. A fearful symmetry! An unsettling duality! Here, in this bag, on this table, an ominous reflection of the strange couplings of the universe. For every action a reaction! For every shower clock radio a non-shower clock radio!
Where is that missing candle? Where can it be?!
Yes. So, in summary, I still don’t know what the hell a terry net bathband is.