Models

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 28 Jan 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Osher	28 Jan 2003
We have a Casanova deck, and a Marco Polo deck (and others?). Who next? Any ideas? I'd like to put in a word for Charles Chaplin. Born in poverty showed talent, moved to America worked hard, became a success, reinveneted himself a few times (movies, talkies, anti-Hitler etc), disgrace, exile, lonliness, not being allowed to rest in peace, his restlessness, like for teenage women (and pretty women and tarot go hand in hand!), and so on. All these elements I think would make a deck of cards. They would also tell a story, of a man from the East End of London. Could be good, no?

tarotbear	28 Jan 2003
So, you want to create a deck about a man who was a pediphile? An adulterer? A total bastard to his children? Bet it's a big hit. Why not glorify the life of Ghandi? He slept with two beautiful women every night to prove he did not lust after them and never touched them.

Osher	28 Jan 2003
Well, I didn't know about his children bit. I suppose he was technically a paedeophile, because his youngest wife was 15 when he married her, and therefore, when he went to America with her, he was paedeophile, or have I misunderstood? Anyway, we could always try someone else, if Mr.Chaplin is wrong. Ghandi or Mandela could both be interesting, Churchill too. I wouldn't be suprised if there is a Jesus deck though.

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