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Originally Posted by Pam O
Hi there,
Thanks for your posts.  I don't have the book yet and I am wondering what the definition of "Flicking Cards" is? Is it tossing down the cards, and observing what you see? In order? Shuffled? Both? |
He doesn't say anything about shuffling, but his intent is clearly not an ordered sequence. At the beginning of the chapter, the first flicking exercise is to throw the cards out onto a table cloth (doesn't matter is some land with the back of the card facing up). Are there overall patterns? How are pips different from trumps/courts?
At the end of the chapter, the second says to do the same until a "broadish number" land, and look at it like a 'spread', noticing gazes and directions. He compares it to a painted ceiling, rather than strict upright or reversed, necessarily. Observe from a variety of distances. Do more than once, perhaps photographing. Are there links that appear to be made? Are the cards creating a dialogue? He references past exercises and imagining being in the scene, as discussed in Chapter 2.
I think he repeats the flicking at the end of the chapter to take into account the topics the chapter brings up in between, so it may be a bit harder to see a difference between the two exercises until you have a copy of the book. Still, the question should be useful regardless.
