grimoire...same root as grammar

[Michael Bailey]

and working back into the Yashmeen/Vlado brief affair;

a) Reef talks about limited # of outcomes for the situation
of Vlado being duck-walked? goose-stepped? - ah, frog-marched,
that's the ticket...
Reef draws on his gambling experience of counting cards
"even if you've been counting them real carefully"
-- gambling as a skill of hand, eye, mind (even if you are
cheating, there may also be other cheaters at the table, eg)
-- sizing up a situation
-- limited number of outcomes
-- adversarial encounter (zero-sum game)*

b) Yashmeen draws upon her mathematical experience to
- however forlornly - hold out other hopes:
-- mathematics including the concept of infinity, thus
uncountable possible outcomes**
-- her own experiences with teleportation

* the Tarot deck is used for divination, contemplation, even healing...
all of which are potentially non-zero-sum endeavours
--- but Tarot's descendant, playing cards, seem to be exclusively used
for competitive games ---
Deck- (of cards) -ydance!
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passing thought:
(excessive) competition is the auto-immune disease of the polis ?????
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** Littlewood's law of miracles - defining a miracle as a one in
a million occurrence, he calculates that about a million different things
happen to each of us every month, so we can expect to witness at least
one miracle a month apiece