This is my model, Falconetta, posing for the “Hanged Man” card in the Bagel Tarot. As you can see, it’s a Medieval Fantasy of Deli Humor mixed with sexy models and stunning 15th century fashions! The fellow hanging upside down in the background is William, Duke of Corinth, but Corinth has already fallen to the heathen, so he needed a job, and this is it. To meet them and get their autographs, you have to get there between Midnight –when the Tarot Factory opens, and 6 AM, which is quitting time, and my models punch out on the time clock slightly early so they can make their bus and subway connections. So what is the “Hanged Man” in the Tarot, and what on Earth does it mean?
First of all, to begin with, before we launch into this subject at a full-tilt running start, let’s get our bearings here:
There is no such thing as “The Tarot”, anymore than there is only one Bible, one Dictionary and one Encyclopaedia. Everyone has his or her own idea of what it should be, and there’s nobody to stop them from publishing away to their heart’s content, nor should there ever be. Free expression, free speech, is the most important element of personal freedoms.
Government would prefer no personal freedoms. That way, it’s easier to govern.
The People, on the other hand, want total personal freedom, and that won’t work, either, so there are governing principles, called a “Constitution” and by-laws to the Constitution, called in this country the “Bill of Rights”, which states specifically who can do what to whom.
That’s right. It isn’t who you know, it’s whom you know.
Ding dang it, there I go, off an a political tangent again, and I promised The Council I would try to not interfere with local life forms again.
After all, the last time I got involved, we had such a cataclysm that there’s no trace left of the Atlantean Civilization, and here I am today, stuck with 100,000 shares of totally worthless Atlantis Oil Co. Preferred, two 1000-share blocks of AtLanTiCo Plastics common stock, 5000 shares of Mr. Atlantis Shampoo, and another 20,000 Drachma in Lower Atlantis 7% Sinking Fund. Thank God I bought on margin.
If I can ever locate Atlantis City again, I know where 50,000 very rusty coins might still be stashed away. I also have a very dog-eared bankbook with a 100,000 balance at the First National Bank of Atlantis. I always recommend long-term investment, but it’s probably gone too far — Atlantis has been gone since early this morning, on my clock. Atlantean Zero Bonds, heck. Does me a lot of good now.
What’s that you say? I never told you what the Hanged Man in the Tarot actually means? The heck I didn’t. What do you think I’ve been telling you all this time, the meaning of life?
See You At The Top!!!
gorby