| "His cards have been laid down, Celtic style, in the order suggested by Mr. A.E. Waite, laid out and read, but they are the cards of a tanker and feeb: they point only to a long and scuffling future, to mediocrity (not only in life but also, heh, heh, in his chroniclers too)." (p.738) |
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From The Devil's Picturebook (as quoted in Thomas Moore's The Style of Connectedness):
"Traditionally [the Fool] represents ... the somehow mysteriously structured chaos which seems to lie at the root of existence.... In most decks ... he is generally left unnumbered, or counted a zero. He is the cosmic cipher, the unmarshalable, archetypal square peg, the existential everyman, nonpartisan, nonaligned and 'wild,' as the poker term has it ... all over the place, at home everywhere and nowhere. The divine bum." (p.121)
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