What card am I? - Lit Clue, 21st Feb

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 21 Feb 2005, and now archived in the Forum Library.

ncefafn	21 Feb 2005
I'm taking the liberty of reviving one of my favorite old games, the Literature Clue. For those unfamiliar with the rules, it's a lot like LaLa Lyric. I post a passage from a work of literature, and you all take guesses at what card I believe best reflects the passage. The winner then gets to take up the next game. So here's my Literature Clue, from Terry Pratchett's Carpe Jugulum, HarperTorch, (c) 1998: "Those who are inclined to casual cruelty say that inside a fat girl is a thin girl and a lot of chocolate. Agnes's thin girl was Perdita. She wasn't sure how she'd acquired the invisible passenger. Her mother had told her that when she was small she'd been in the habit of blaming accidents and mysteries, such as the disappearance of a bowl of cream or the breaking of a prized jug, on 'the other little girl.' Only now did she realize that indulging this sort of thing wasn't a good idea when, despite yourself, you've got a bit of natural witchcraft in your blood. The imaginary friend had simply grown up and had never gone away and had turned out to be a pain. Agnes disliked Perdita, who was vain, selfish and vicious, and Perdita hated going around inside Agnes, whom she regarded as a fat, pathetic, weak-willed blob that people would walk all over were she not so steep. Agnes told herself she'd simply invented the name Perdita as some convenient label for all those thoughts and desires she knew she shouldn't have, as a name for that troublesome little commentator that lives on everyone's shoulder and sneers. But sometimes she thought Perdita had created Agnes for something to pummel." I imagine this will be pretty easy. :) Kim

Annabelle	21 Feb 2005
Is it Temperance, by any chance?

arcanalefait	21 Feb 2005
Yay! I love this game! 2 of pents? Juggling two personalities? Arcana

Ulfdis	22 Feb 2005
2 of swords?

ncefafn	22 Feb 2005
All good guesses, but not the card I'm thinking of. :) Kim

arcanalefait	22 Feb 2005
The Moon?

aaquwaa	22 Feb 2005
wild guess, devil?

ncefafn	22 Feb 2005
Aaquwaa wins! I chose the Devil for this passage because Perdita is Agnes's shadow self (or Agnes is Perdita's). She was born to take the blame for all of Agnes's misdeeds, and became a monstrous Other inside her. Congratulations, Aaquwaa! You get to start the next Lit Clue game. :-) Kim

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