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la conspiration alphabétique
(an infallible method to reveal the name of a future husband, wife, or partner)
a = Ace de Deniers
b = Le Bateleur
c = La Pances* (La Papesse)
d = Imperatris
e = Ace de Epees
f = Lempereur
g = Le Pape
h = Lamoureu
i = Le Fol
j = Le Charior
k = Iustice
l = Lermite
m = La Roue de Fortun
n = Force
o = Ace de Baton
p = Le Pandu
q = (Arcane sans nom)
r = Temperance
s = Le Diable
t = La Maison Dieu
u = Ace de Coupes
v = Le Toille
w = La Lune
x = Le Soleil
y = Le Judgement
z = Le Monde
method:
1.
shuffle the deck (only the trumps plus the four aces) and pull from four to eight cards.
2.
using the above table of correspondences, translate the card's sequence into letters.
3.
put all those letter together, creating a word.
3.
read the word
plan a: these random words will contain an actual name.
plan b: making anagrams of these words you will find another word whose sound, etymology or meaning will lead you to a name.
4.
look for a person with that name
5.
marry that person
example:
Le Fol (i) + Le Pandu (p) + Ace de Deniers (a) + La Rove de Fortun (m) + Lamoureu (h) = ipamh
Ipamh = I, Pam H.
in the above example, we are encouraged to look for a person whose first name is 'Pam', and whose last name should start withy the letter H, or sounds like "aych".
We guarantee this method will lead you to absolute happiness, until the need of shuffling the deck again becomes evident. **
* In adherence to a science of the circumstantial, these cards names follow the Jean Dodal spelling, because that was the deck that happened to be on the table.
** RESULTS NOT TYPICAL
DISCLAIMER: we strongly disclaim whatever you may think we are claiming.
e. e.
la conspiration alphabétique (Appendix)
(This appendix is brought to you with limited commercial interruptions by the word ‘befuddlement’)
Those who already have a husband, wife, or partner (and won’t surrender to the temptation of shuffling the deck again), could apply our table of correspondences to the name of a significant other. The resulting card-sequence will accurately predict an imaginary fate for that relationship. The ‘pataphysical nature of the tarot-as-machine cannot be overlooked, for it allow us to make all kinds of predictions as if reality* were supposed to mirror the imaginary solutions we propose. Even so, it would be important to note that every single idea posed to us by the tarot gets automatically disclaimed by the tarot's artificial nature. The tarot is not 'reality', but an alternative to reality. It doesn't stands beyond that what is real, but asides of what is real (slightly to the right, we suspect). It will be of foremost importance to keep in mind that, by telling a future 'as if', instead of telling a future 'as is', the tarot always disclaims itself.
(befuddlement = bed-melted fun)
Translating a sequence of cards into a word may seem limited or limiting, but turning the procedure the other way around offers limitless possibilities. Any word can be translated into a sequence of cards, and therefore, any word can be expanded into many other words. If we understand poetry as the realm where language is re-created, we will see the tarot as the ultimate poetical machine, for it allows us to operate outside the frontier of language by decomposing words into images, so the semantic field of our original words get expanded by absorbing the semantic fields of all the words included in these images, once we translate the images back to language. As Italo Calvino rightly wrote: "the most artificial of mechanisms is capable of awakening in us the most secret and unexpected poetic demons".
For example, the proposed methodology would expand the word LOVE into this card sequence:
(L) Lermite + (O) Ace de Batons + (V) La Maison Dieu + (E) Ace de Spees = A lonely man, stuck on the memory of his past, is offered a blazing branch that destroys his rational boundaries, giving him a new will to live.
(befuddlement = feet blend mud)
A tarologist searches for that anomaly where chaos makes perfect sense. The aim of our mechanistic methodologies would be to provide viable alternatives to what Mallarmé called “spiritual anarchy” and we know as ‘inspiration’. By denying inspiration -illustrated in this case as the serendipitous calling of Love- and by substituting it by a whole new set of constrains, we hope to arrive at the same results chance would produce-in this case, a "happy ever after" marriage- by feasible means. Even so, it must be clear that finding love is just a secondary application for this poetic device.
(This appendix was brought to you with limited commercial interruptions by the word ‘befuddlement’. Ask your doctor if ‘befuddlement’ is right for you)
e. e. new york, 2010
* In order to get the most accurate perspective, it would be useful to understand reality as "everything else but me". This makes more likely for the tarot-as-a-dream to overlap reality-as-a-dream.
(an infallible method to reveal the name of a future husband, wife, or partner)
a = Ace de Deniers
b = Le Bateleur
c = La Pances* (La Papesse)
d = Imperatris
e = Ace de Epees
f = Lempereur
g = Le Pape
h = Lamoureu
i = Le Fol
j = Le Charior
k = Iustice
l = Lermite
m = La Roue de Fortun
n = Force
o = Ace de Baton
p = Le Pandu
q = (Arcane sans nom)
r = Temperance
s = Le Diable
t = La Maison Dieu
u = Ace de Coupes
v = Le Toille
w = La Lune
x = Le Soleil
y = Le Judgement
z = Le Monde
method:
1.
shuffle the deck (only the trumps plus the four aces) and pull from four to eight cards.
2.
using the above table of correspondences, translate the card's sequence into letters.
3.
put all those letter together, creating a word.
3.
read the word
plan a: these random words will contain an actual name.
plan b: making anagrams of these words you will find another word whose sound, etymology or meaning will lead you to a name.
4.
look for a person with that name
5.
marry that person
example:
Le Fol (i) + Le Pandu (p) + Ace de Deniers (a) + La Rove de Fortun (m) + Lamoureu (h) = ipamh
Ipamh = I, Pam H.
in the above example, we are encouraged to look for a person whose first name is 'Pam', and whose last name should start withy the letter H, or sounds like "aych".
We guarantee this method will lead you to absolute happiness, until the need of shuffling the deck again becomes evident. **
* In adherence to a science of the circumstantial, these cards names follow the Jean Dodal spelling, because that was the deck that happened to be on the table.
** RESULTS NOT TYPICAL
DISCLAIMER: we strongly disclaim whatever you may think we are claiming.
e. e.
la conspiration alphabétique (Appendix)
(This appendix is brought to you with limited commercial interruptions by the word ‘befuddlement’)
Those who already have a husband, wife, or partner (and won’t surrender to the temptation of shuffling the deck again), could apply our table of correspondences to the name of a significant other. The resulting card-sequence will accurately predict an imaginary fate for that relationship. The ‘pataphysical nature of the tarot-as-machine cannot be overlooked, for it allow us to make all kinds of predictions as if reality* were supposed to mirror the imaginary solutions we propose. Even so, it would be important to note that every single idea posed to us by the tarot gets automatically disclaimed by the tarot's artificial nature. The tarot is not 'reality', but an alternative to reality. It doesn't stands beyond that what is real, but asides of what is real (slightly to the right, we suspect). It will be of foremost importance to keep in mind that, by telling a future 'as if', instead of telling a future 'as is', the tarot always disclaims itself.
(befuddlement = bed-melted fun)
Translating a sequence of cards into a word may seem limited or limiting, but turning the procedure the other way around offers limitless possibilities. Any word can be translated into a sequence of cards, and therefore, any word can be expanded into many other words. If we understand poetry as the realm where language is re-created, we will see the tarot as the ultimate poetical machine, for it allows us to operate outside the frontier of language by decomposing words into images, so the semantic field of our original words get expanded by absorbing the semantic fields of all the words included in these images, once we translate the images back to language. As Italo Calvino rightly wrote: "the most artificial of mechanisms is capable of awakening in us the most secret and unexpected poetic demons".
For example, the proposed methodology would expand the word LOVE into this card sequence:
(L) Lermite + (O) Ace de Batons + (V) La Maison Dieu + (E) Ace de Spees = A lonely man, stuck on the memory of his past, is offered a blazing branch that destroys his rational boundaries, giving him a new will to live.
(befuddlement = feet blend mud)
A tarologist searches for that anomaly where chaos makes perfect sense. The aim of our mechanistic methodologies would be to provide viable alternatives to what Mallarmé called “spiritual anarchy” and we know as ‘inspiration’. By denying inspiration -illustrated in this case as the serendipitous calling of Love- and by substituting it by a whole new set of constrains, we hope to arrive at the same results chance would produce-in this case, a "happy ever after" marriage- by feasible means. Even so, it must be clear that finding love is just a secondary application for this poetic device.
(This appendix was brought to you with limited commercial interruptions by the word ‘befuddlement’. Ask your doctor if ‘befuddlement’ is right for you)
e. e. new york, 2010
* In order to get the most accurate perspective, it would be useful to understand reality as "everything else but me". This makes more likely for the tarot-as-a-dream to overlap reality-as-a-dream.