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NWT #1: That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
Posted: 13 Dec 2020, 03:44
by chiscotheque
In the spirit of transitoriness and one-hit-wonders, I will attempt to answer some pressing
Plato's Cave questions with brief readings from
The New Wave Tarot.
Question: Where is THIS question coming from?
Card: The Hermit 9 Morrissey
Answer: From vainglory and the desire to appear clever.
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Re: NWT #1: That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
Posted: 17 Dec 2020, 23:33
by dodalisque
chiscotheque wrote: ↑13 Dec 2020, 03:44
From vainglory and the desire to appear clever.
Not from the "smithy of the soul"?
“Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.” (James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
Re: NWT #1: That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
Posted: 17 Dec 2020, 23:36
by chiscotheque
dodalisque wrote: ↑17 Dec 2020, 23:33
chiscotheque wrote: ↑13 Dec 2020, 03:44
From vainglory and the desire to appear clever.
Not from the "smithy of the soul"?
“Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.” (James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
you is the wordsmith, Dodalisque. I leave the pithy to you. "Smithy of the soul" sounds vaguely smutty.
Another
Answer might've been: From the ghost of Oscar Wilde.
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Re: NWT #1: That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
Posted: 18 Dec 2020, 00:22
by dodalisque
chiscotheque wrote: ↑17 Dec 2020, 23:36
you is the wordsmith, Dodalisque. I leave the pithy to you. "Smithy of the soul" sounds vaguely smutty.
Some of Smitty's bon mots fall as flat as a Pancake House.