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make a list of words and phrases and their meanings

sort it from most to least obvious (ie, from needing the least annotation to the most)

sort it again (2-D) if a meaning implies something about a person's gender

sort it again (3-D) if a meaning implies something about a person's age (from conception to senility) so eg all the baby-related words are in one cluster

now you can pick any agegroup and gender and see a set of words and phrases that have obscure meanings related to that age group

and you can describe a stereotypical interaction of two people and hide their ages and genders...

thinking out soft

the earliest nervecells detected patterns

a growing library of patterns had to coexist

patterns of patterns of patterns went beyond
specific sensory sources
toward abstract metaphors

time and space
in particular
grew metaphorical with each other

wide narrow fast slow smooth sharp

every tiny metaphor got tested for compatibility
against the entire evolved library
so as not to set off inapt associations

and
then
when they needed sounds
to convey patterns
they found metaphorical sounds
which also had to avoid
inapt associations

documents, expiring

when does a printed publication expire?

maybe when the author or publisher loses confidence in it and renounces it?

when the argument it makes is proven faulty?

when it's supplanted by a newer version?


when does an electronic publication expire?

when it's deleted?

when its links break?

A Finnegans Wake tarot deck?

Joyce's archetypes are surely richer and deeper than the traditional tarot, even while serving the same purpose (hasn't anyone explored this yet?)


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the four suits have to be Mamalujo aka the four provinces

wands, pentacles, cups, swords
1-10, page, knight, queen, king

can each province have its own versions of HCE, ALP, Shem and Shaun? why not Issy too? or the two Issys?

if they're meant as playingcards, the major arcana archetypes should probably be redistributed among the minor values
2 Issys
3 soldiers
4 Mamalujo
7 rainbow girls


major arcana

The Fool [Joyce?]
The Magician [the Cad?]
The High Priestess [the prankquean?]
The Empress
The Emperor
The Hierophant [Berkeley]
The Lovers [Tristan and Isolde]
The Chariot [the Letter]
Strength
The Hermit [Kevin? or Shem?]
Wheel of Fortune [Viconian cycle?]
Justice
The Hanged Man [fallen Humpty Dumpty]
Death [The Tomb]
Temperance [Shaun]
The Devil [Sackerson? snake]
The Tower [Wellington Monument, the wall]
The Star
The Moon
The Sun
Judgement [The Thunderclap?]
The World


missing?
Rebirth
The River
The Hill
The Encounter
The Riddle
The Rumor
Hosty's Rann
The Temptresses
The Soldiers
Kate
Biddy the hen
Intemperance
The Cave [Freudian opposite of Tower]


photos?

a simpler approach might be photos of real 'characters':

Howth
Phoenix Park
Wellington
the Monument
the Liffey
Chapelizod
Parnell
Alice Liddell
Joyce
Nora
Lucia
Stannie