What Card am I (Literature Clues): I The Magician

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 02 Jun 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

allibee	02 Jun 2003
From: Captain Corelli's Mandolin, by Louis de Bernieres Setting the scene..... "Dr Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse. He had attended a surprisingly easy calving, lanced one abscess, extracted a molar, dosed one lady of easy virtue with Salversan, performed an unpleasant but spectacularly fruitful enema, and produced a miracle ....... He chuckled to himself, for no doubt this miracle was already being touted as worthy of St Gerasimos himself. He had gone to old man Stamatis' house, having been summoned to deal with an earache, and found himself staring down into an aural orifice more dank, be-lichened, and stalagmatic even than the Drogararti cave......" Dr Iannis finds a pea, a very old pea in said orifice. "Dr Iannis found an absurd picture rising up before his imagination. It was Stamatis as a toddler, with the same knarled face, the same stoop, the same overmeasure of aural hair, reaching up to the kitchen table and taking a dried pea from a wooden bowl. He stuck it into his mouth, found it too hard to bite, and crammed it into his ear. The doctor chuckled, 'You must have been a very annoying little boy.'......... Dr Iannis considered the problem. It was undoubtedly an obdurate and recalcitrant pea, and it was too tightly packed to lever it out. 'Do you have a fish hook, about the size for a mullet, with a long shank? And do you have a light hammer?' The couple looked at each other with the single thought that the doctor must have lost his mind. 'What does this have to do with my earache?' asked Stamatis suspiciously. 'You have an exorbitant auditory impediment,' replied the doctor, ever conscious of the necessity for maintaining a certain iatric mystique, and fully aware that 'a pea in the ear' was unlikely to earn him a kudos. 'I can remove it with a fish hook and a small hammer; it's the ideal way of overcoming un embarras de petit pois.' He spoke the French words in a mincingly Parisian accent, even though the irony was apparent only to himself.' - " So, what card am I? A

firemaiden	02 Jun 2003
The Magician?

allibee	02 Jun 2003
All that typing, and you get it straight away, LOL I thought peeps may go for the King Swords route, but it couldn't really be anything else but that Magician. I had to leave out the sentence about the miracle being a feat of medical prestidigitation *sp*too easy, but you got it anyway, LOL, well done....have you read the book? a.

firemaiden	04 Jun 2003
Yup! I read the book, and knew the instant that I saw you had picked the pea in the ear incident it could only be the magician! (I think I remembered the prestidigitation idea) Great book!

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