Literature Clues: XVI the Tower

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 20 May 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

ihcoyc	20 May 2003
Here's one that just occurred to me; a passage from one of my favourite authors. It probably is too easy to bother with, but here goes: Quote: God smote Savannah-la-mar, and in one night, by earthquake, removed her, with all her towers standing and population sleeping, from the steadfast foundations of the shore to the coral floors of ocean. And God said,—“Pompeii did I bury and conceal from men through seventeen centuries: this city I will bury, but not conceal. She shall be a monument to men of my mysterious anger, set in azure light through generations to come; for I will enshrine her in a crystal dome of my tropic seas. ---Thomas de Quincey, Savannah-la-Mar, from Suspiria de Profundis

Dark Eyes	21 May 2003
I bet the tower would be far too obvious, but I will go there anyway...... The tower.........:TTOW ? :I

jmd	21 May 2003
Thanks for picking up the thread, ihcoyc... I too would have said the Tower... so, as taken, how about Judgement ?

ihcoyc	21 May 2003
The Tower was what I had in mind. Of all writers I have read, I am the most envious of Thomas de Quincey and Jeremy Taylor. I would cut off a finger to be able to write like either of them. . . .

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