Literature Clues: 5 of Pentacles

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 05 Jun 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

firemaiden	05 Jun 2003
This Berl Landfahrer was followed by bad luck his entire life. From youth onward everything went wrong. He tried his hand at many different professions, and depite all his pains, was so poor, that on the Sabbath and on Weekdays, he wore the same shirt, while others had for every half night-off a different shirt. Most recently he purchased, in one of the little villages of the area, the skins of slaughtered cattle, which the christian butchers had left over, but it happened that this was a time when the farmers had in mind to charge twelve Crowns for a Skin that was only worth eight. The neighbors in Ufer street said that if Berl Landfahrer were to sell candles, then the sun would no longer go down. When it is raining ducats, they say, he is sitting in the parlor, but when stones fall from Heaven, then he is out on the street. There is no stick which he doesn't stumble over, and when he has bread he is missing the knife, and when he has both, then he can't find any salt. This excepted painfully translated from "das Gespräch der Hunde" (What the Dog Said), in Nachts unter der steinernen Brücke by Leo Perutz, (published in English as By night under the Stone Bridge) See Leo Perutz (1882-1957)

firemaiden	05 Jun 2003
So... be brave...pull up a chair, take a guess...what card AM I then??

Major Tom	05 Jun 2003
5 of Pentacles?

firemaiden	05 Jun 2003
YAY!! Major Tom, got it!! NO one else was even brave enough to guess! Thanks Tom, your turn!

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