More, pp.679 ff

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I've got a vision of the Devil card as Bluto [Max Fleisher era, of course] towering over Popeye & Olive Oyl, chained together, naked and bashful.
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From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Renfrew, Devil Tarot card--fill in,  Robin---taking in "Waltzing in Whitechapel" 
> sees
> "his fellow Archduke-minder" now a Landwehr Colonel.....'grown more mineral'---
> [less human, more inanimate] 
>  
> Devil card interpretation from wikipedia: 
> The Devil is the card of self-bondage to an idea or belief which is preventing 
> us from growing—an example could include believing that getting drunk each night 
> is good for you. On the other hand, however, it can also be a warning to someone 
> who is too restrained and/or dispassionate and never allows him or herself to be 
> rash or wild or ambitious, which is yet another form of enslavement.
>  
> P.S. on  Kai's last post..."second-order observers".........p. 680 "It's an 
> actor playing
> an actor playing jack"......Nigel sorta wants first order jack up there 
> ripping.........
> Neville says it is all artificial 'including the blood everyone's come 
> for"........
> Is such bloodlust a part of polite society--in AtDs vision?
> 
> 
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