Robert W. Sullivan IV

The Kenny Chesney song “The Tin Man,” which conjures The Wizard of Oz (1939) in its lyrics, was originally released on April 19th, 1994, on Capricorn Records, suggesting the Goat of Mendes, the leaping goat, the godhead, a year after the Branch Davidian Compound burned to the ground (4/19/93) and a year before the OKC Murrah Building terrorist attack (4/19/95), was re-released on his Greatest Hits album on September 26th, 2000. Forty-two weeks later, on July 23rd, 2001, “The Tin Man” was re-released as a single; its music video was scheduled to be filmed seven weeks later, on September 11th, 2001, in front of the World Trade Center but was canceled a few days beforehand because BNA Records (the new label) did not believe a video was necessary. “The Tin Man,” both the Ozian character and the tune’s name, has a sum of 49 = 7² using reverse Pythagorean reduction.[1] Cinema Symbolism 4, Cinema Symbolism OZ, and Cinema Symbolism Third Edition are coming along splendidly.

[1] T/7 + h/1 + e/4 = 12, T/7 + i/9 + n/4 = 20, M/5 + a/8 + n/4 = 17; 12 + 20 + 17 = 49.