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| Posted: Mon Oct 15th, 2012 11:20 pm |
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goldenweb
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Opinions stated as facts...:(
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19th, 2012 10:19 am |
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debra
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She mentions the uncut sheet from about 1500 as the might-be original tarot, presumably the Cary sheet. I guess she is not familiar with the earlier gilded aristocratic cards. She might be relying on the Andy's Playing Cards site. I think she did just enough research to prime her imagination for a creative writing project. She's a good writer.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19th, 2012 05:46 pm |
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goldenweb
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How about this, regarding dreams?
" Like dreams, the tarot is not meant to work as a coherent narrative. The prime function of the dream is to keep the dreamer asleep so that the proteins of the brain can be replenished. (And so, the dream always wishes the same thing–to protect the sleeping status of the dreamer). Dreams do not exist in order to be interpreted and..."
Misinformation written with authority is simply irresponsible.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 20th, 2012 05:35 am |
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debra
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Oh I see what you're saying. Yeah. Poetically presented bullhocky. 
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| Posted: Sat Oct 20th, 2012 02:54 pm |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21st, 2012 11:53 am |
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Perhaps I should clarify why I posted a link to Karen Whiteson's text. Like Debra, I happen to think that she's a good writer, and I was engaged by her writing about her own experience with the Marteau deck, especially as there is so little, well or ill informed, on the Marseilles in English.
I absolutely did not intend to present her text as a reliable source of information on the tarot, and I'm sorry for any confusion that might have caused. The interest of her text, for me, lay in its being a necessarily subjective account of one person's---specifically not a collector's or researcher's---personal interaction with the cards. I probably wouldn't have been interested if she'd written about some generic US Games deck, but I was impressed that she had tried to convey the feel of a Marseilles deck in a piece that would probably only get read by people whose concept of the tarot was based around a hazy apprehension of the RWS. I imagine that any member of this forum would be better informed about the cards themselves than she evidently is, but that's not really the point of the exercise.
As a more general point, while I feel that it is important to understand as much as one can of the actual history of the tarot, it is hard to deny that it thrives on wishful thinking and misinterpretation, and that much of the development of the modern tarot has been the result of opinions stated as facts. Similarly, although I would much rather not be caught out in my own writing, I can not help but notice that misapprehension can and often does power art, and that the validity of what is intended as creative work is not necessarily damaged by a failure to draw upon the best or most accurate sources, as long as it is understood to be a reflection of the creator's own understanding.
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