GR/AtD-related: Chaos and the Psychological Symbolism of the Tarot

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 27 10:00:07 CDT 2009


Robin corrects:
However there is an error in noting the Fool card as card
> #1. As Pynchon points out in GR, the Fool card [usually
> marked as "zero"] usually has no numeric assignment in the
> deck.

Which means, probably meaningfully in GR at least, that the Fool card
added to another is the same sum.....the Fool can be anywhere....

--- On Tue, 10/27/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: GR/AtD-related: Chaos and the Psychological Symbolism of the Tarot
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 10:29 AM
> The article is mostly very good and
> helpful in noting the differences between Tarot decks, the
> symbolism, the history, etc.
> 
> However there is an error in noting the Fool card as card
> #1. A Pynchon points out in GR, the Fool card [usually
> marked as "zero"] usually has no numeric assignment in the
> deck.
> 
> > http://www.schuelers.com/chaos/chaos7.htm
> 


      



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