Do nothing you wouldn't
want to be caught dead doing.
Memento mori.
John Carradine's advice: "Never do anything
you wouldn't be caught dead doing."
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Cognate Images
The ranks of man image above is from a c.1400 Italian manuscript of Petrarch's De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae. The five images below are from a 1503 French manuscript of Remediis. They show the central allegory of the Tarot trump cycle, the ups and downs of Fortune's Wheel: SUCCESS (Love & Chariot), REVERSAL (Time or Asceticism & Fortune herself), and DOWNFALL (Traitor & Death). In Tarot as in Petrarch's Remedies these circumstances, which define the Fall of Princes storyline, are responded to with Virtue. The two End Times images are from a c.1400 Flemish Apocalypse and the c.1330 English Holkham Bible.
Caveat Lector
I'm a Tarot geek, fascinated by the factual history and characteristic medieval allegory of this remarkable artifact. The bad news is that I'm not an art historian. My only credentials are having read most of the salient books on the subject and having a strong preference for facts over fiction. The good news is that I am not an apologist for occult, paranormal, or other New Age nonsense, nor a sucker for pseudo-historical fantasy. That has made me a skeptic among the true believers who dominate the online Tarot community. These are some of my musings, to provide an occasional counterpoint to the pervasive New Age pseudo-history of Tarot.
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Very good, in a very sad way. I still suspect foul "play". Only because he was "in a closet".
ReplyDeletePartner escaped through the window?
Dead men tell no tales.
But those who discover them
May tell a thousand.
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ReplyDeleteI'm so inept at this thing. Let me try again:
ReplyDeleteLOL -- rejecting the obvious (and even predictable) in favor of a more dramatic narrative... you should be a Tarotist!
My favorite story -- so far -- is the one floated by an attorney, that he was killed by an assassin on behalf of some secret society. Anyone with that shameless and creative a fantasy life should be writing for Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck.
mjh
Michael, Michael, Michael.
ReplyDeleteIf we listened to everything our parents taught us we'd be "Seen and not heard" and "Not saying anything at all if we can't say anything nice"... you've obviously not followed the advice, why should David?
;)
I think the whole thing is terribly sad, and if there was a secret plot, I'm sure it was planned, (as they have been throughout history), by the ECC (Evil Catholic Church).
He probably was likked by the same people who killed Bruce Lee.
ReplyDelete;-)
I'm thinking that he was done in by the same guy who killed Jon-Erik Hexum -- that inscrutable stranger in the mirror. Some are stranger than others.
ReplyDeleteJon-Erik Hexum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Erik_Hexum
mjh
Wow Michael,
ReplyDeleteCover Up... That is quite an obscure reference! worth of you!
EE
Then you have all those who have died by catching a bullet -or by not catching it- on stage.
ReplyDeleteKia Khan Khruse, 1818
De Linsky,1820
"Torrini" De Grisy, 1826
Dr. Epstein, 1869
De Line, 1890
The Great Herrmann, 1890
Michael Hatal, 1899
"Bosco" Blumenfeld, 1906
Edvin Lindberg)
Chung Ling Soo, 1918
A few of them became famous by impersonating Chinese people. I detect a pattern there...
EE
Hmmm... Bablefish didn't help me out much with that:
ReplyDeleteCapital possible couple arriving at nobility in 每 private life, 這 些 nobility non- fixed true invaluable and other possible right 陌 raw person, 也 possible right 你 mark enemy person.
However, I certainly can't disagree with that.
mjh
Hmmm... Bablefish tried:
ReplyDeleteGood sentence, territory receiving Ryo! Thanking/apologizing thanking/apologizing!