Numerology
and
The Harry Lands

Only a handful of specific place names are mentioned as destinations of Harry during his ministry. (His visits to such famous sites as Woodstock and the Democratic Convention in Chicago occur prior to his ministry.) Some of these are fictionalized, some are not. Is there a numerological reason for this?

The first place Harry "shows up" is named by Willie as "Altarey." This appears to be a homologation of Altamont and Monterey, both sites of notorious rock concerts c. 1970.
 
 

A
L
T
A
R
E
Y
=
=
=
=
1
12
20
1
18
5
25
=
82
10
1

The homologated term means "high king," and the location becomes the site of Harry's "Pontification on the Mountain" or Sermon on the Mount. This numerological outcome is therefore hardly surpising. At the conclusion of this episode, we are informed that Harry is returning to his sometime home in Malibu:
 
 

M
A
L
I
B
U
=
=
=
=
13
1
12
9
2
21
=
58
13
4

Malibu clearly conjures the image of Harry as the Plutocrat. He proceeds to recruit his Followers at a famous university in Boston:
 
 

B
O
S
T
O
N
=
=
=
=
2
15
19
20
15
14
=
85
13
4

And here we are being shown another side of the Plutocrat, the spoiled inheritors of the economic and intellectual tradition with which Harry is directly engaged. With Followers in tow, he jets to an "Indiana university." This university is not in Indiana, however, but Ohio. It is Kent State, site of the famous shootings of students by the Ohio National Guard. Despite this (no doubt deliberate) error, we are directed to focus on the school's  exact name because of a ribald episode on the Learjet in which Harry uses two young women to help spell out "(university name) or Bust."

This gives us:
 

K
E
N
T
=
=
=
11
5
24
20
=
60
6

But this isn't right. It's the altered name we're being aimed at:
 

K
E
N
T
=
=
=
=
11
21
24
20
=
76
13
4

 
S
T
A
T
E
=
=
=
=
19
20
1
20
5
=
65
11
2

 
U
N
I
V
E
R
S
I
T
Y
=
=
=
21
14
9
21
5
18
19
9
20
25
=
161
8

Added and reduced, this gives us:
 

           
K
E
N
T
=
4
         
S
T
A
T
E
=
2
U
N
I
V
E
R
S
I
T
Y
=
8
                   
=
14
                   
=
5

Obviously, we have used the blur to arrive at this outcome. I would argue that it's justified on two counts. First, the "pun" employed by Harry to alter the name does amount to an erasure and substitution, which evokes its own image of a blur. Second, the symbolic imagery of Kent State in our history is (rightly or wrongly) synonymous with the "slaughterhouse" and is characterized in this fashion by Harry in Vinnie, when he urges the "poor white trash" to end the Revolution by killing a few college kids.

Next, Harry takes his Followers to Philadelphia:
 

P
H
I
L
A
D
E
L
P
H
I
A
=
=
=
16
8
9
12
1
4
5
12
16
8
9
1
=
101
2

Again, we have an excellent numerological correspondence. "Two is the number of love, which will become a four letter word..." How appropriate for the City of Brotherly Love and its neighborhoods full of hate.

Finally, we have Harry's escape to Rio:
 
 

R
I
O
=
=
=
18
9
15
=
42
6

We have seen elsewhere that there is ample reason to associate the escape event and its aftermath with the number 6.

What happens when we sum up the "Harry Lands"?
 

ALTAREY
1
MALIBU
4
BOSTON
4
KENT STATE
5
PHILADELPHIA
2
RIO
6
=
22

Of course.