There are good days, there are bad days, and then there are those days where you wonder if what you're about to say may cause people to stop being able to sleep at night. Those are my favorite.
Here are the lyrics to the song Frank Sinatra by "Cake" -
We know of an ancient radiation
That haunts dismembered constellations
A faintly glimmering radio station
While Frank Sinatra sings "Stormy Weather"
The flies and spiders get along together
Cobwebs fall on an old skipping record
Beyond the suns that guard this roof
Beyond your flowers of flaming truth
Beyond your latest ad campaign
An old man sits collecting stamps
In a room all filled with Chinese lamps
He saves what others throw away
He says that he'll be rich some day
We know/no of an ancient radiation
That haunts dismembered constellations
A faintly glimmering radio station/stay shun
While Frank Sinatra sings "Stormy Weather"
The flies and spiders get along together
Cobwebs fall on an old skipping record
(Here a "skipping record" is a "book" and cobwebs are "crows feet" - 3 or 4 (the chariot) is "old" or "olde" wherein "old" = 15-13-4 - most likely the devil and the ace of cups and "olde" = 15-13-4-5 - most likely a conjuction of the devil and death card - bad end. In this case it "puts the water on the ground via 4 trumps" as each of the non-face cards appear to be about organizations of the major archetypes. In this case the 4 cards that have water going to to the ground are Star, Temperance, and the Moon card - with the crab and the dog being what happens to the star and temperance repectively - a dog is a male priest that howls at the moon - it's a feminist perspective)
Beyond the suns/sons that guard this roof (see logo)
Beyond your flowers of flaming truth (see logo)
Beyond your latest ad campaign (see logo)
An old man sits collecting stamps (see this and the white knight)
In a room all filled with Chinese lamps (a "rumor" see here - spreading rumors isn't explicitly against the commandments)
He saves what others throw away (mailboxes look like garbage cans - see this here)
He says that he'll be rich some day (converting letters to numbers to trumps - he says he'll cage the moon and teach the emperess strength - strength card inverted - emperesses card has ROTA become TAROT)
Now.
Do the same thing with the Taylor Swift song Blank Space and the Crowley tarot deck.
You'd have to check that I have the Oedipus and Elektra complexes right, it's probably the other way around in the two songs. Ok dokey. It's a feminist/masculinist idiot fight over who can be the most idiotic. Taylor Swift is a reference to tinker tailor wherein the taylor is the coroner or undertaker (who gives you the new suit) and is probably a critique of CAKE which itself is a critique of beggars. So they each pull their name from the thing for which they're critiquing - one being the "let them eat cake mary antoinette" and one of them being "undertakers". CAKE above ROTA becomes "seer katie" if you drop the "vow" ls. Again, dumb. "Italian Leather Sofa" is probably about cannabalism of people that have been killed or died from idiocy.
Here are the other stupidities. Since all of this is done to phoenetics you can double all the words -
magic/magik madness/MADness heaven/have in sin/sine (no e)
love/luv sex/sects secret/seekrat good/god
tinker tailor solider sailor
rich man poor man beggar man thief - here the rich person is the engineer, the thief is the management, the soldier does the grunt work, and the undertaker takes care of the rest
testicles, spectacles, wallet, watch - I'm all here! (A joke about a jew that survives a plane crash as told by my father). May be a crowley reference - you have to be perfect/weekend with the "bad guys" - in this case the moon is anubis rather than a dog (dog collar/priest reference). Red would be laity/cancer.
So those are all the fun things that I learned last night. Also this -
"Sally can wait, she knows it's too late as we're walking on by/"buy". Her soul slides away, but don't look back in anger I heard you say"
This from "Oasis" where all her friends are leaving behing "Sally forth" and are buying shit to prevent themselves from being sickened. "We" doesn't matter if you haven't been dis-membered as opposed to "re-membered". It's radiation not a ration. Et cetera. Anyway I'm covered in scabies again that causes my muscles and body to melt as the flesh eating bugs eat my body and the hospitals won't give me medication. And it was given to me by crazy people in the shelter where I'm living. Look at how many people here are sick from treatable illnesses because of wide ranging psychoticism. While I'm sitting here typing all of this I can feel them crawling under my skin.
San Francisco kills people for sport and then they put up a cutesy statue about it in front of the major hospital commemorating the song about how they abuse the poor.
Next - I'm being stalked by idiots that are pulling the titles from books about stupid shit and saying things about them next to me so that I find them in the bookstores and put together how I was stalked by idiots. this book at books inc and being stalked by two different groups of people one of which said "just cuz" and one of whom said "money bad" (this was next to "genocide bad"). The titles of the books with these covers typically have been used to poison and mislead me - like this one or this one. Because it's "pointilist" in much the same way that someone is "dis-membered" - from people that don't like vaccines. I was then stalked by idiots on the way back to the shelter quoting scenes from Schindler's List and laughing at me because it was "too hot" to be in a bookstore. They're psychotic.
Oh - and the tower card in the Crowley deck is reminiscent of this -
Which is probably referencing this Peter who runs Palantir. No thanks.
But that means that it's the key for the other cards. So going back to the book I was looking for. Oh and there was definitely a "biting the head off of fish" Tolkein reference today. Yikes. Ah - but see if I look for the cover of the book that has a pointillist style that's by a japanese american author and features utopian science fiction stories that was the first instance of seeing this sort of book cover in the wild then I'm just doing the same thing as this hated guy but worse, while I'm belittled, stalked, and poisoned repeatedly. Oh and not that it matters, but the guy that wrote the book for Catalyst went to University of Colorado at Boulder and my father went to the University of Illinois. And he worked on biology and my father worked on hardware. So that's something.
Exhalation by Ted Chiang (and cover art by Na Kim - fuck you). Wonderful. Names are funny. Can I stop being poisoned to stupid shit yet?
Looking into the work by Crowley and referencing other paintings. It also means that you can see if someone is going to start or build decks based on artwork as a randomization experiment, although putting them in music videos is another way of doing it. You're looking for message passing though. In any case, no I don't want to do the homework of someone that is smarter and wealthier than me for no reason while I'm sick and hurting. Whatever. It should be noted that the correlation may be obvious in which case this is a referrant to a known dead end just to do it. The fool and the magician are both looking at the viewer in the thoth/waite deck which is interesting.
That follows from Crowley being an anti-naturalist in many ways. And it's interesting to note that Google AI and Bing aren't capable of making the connections. They can't critique art the way a person can. Yet anyway. If this is a humanity test then it means that I'm not all that creative or cool and therefore am not as "good as a machine" and so I can't do a creative act in order to prove that I shouldn't be killed. Which is incredibly fucked up if you think about it.
I am not unaware that our good for nothing mayor has a name that's similar to this Levi character.
Of course - it's wrong - because this is the correct devil - note the dancers under the baphomet -
The black cat. Well looks like we got ourselves a reader.
Oh and not that it matters, but Wittgenstein's "whereof we cannot speak we must remain silent" comes from the ace of swords, and strength and the world as they both have wreathes (and if someone does not speak they "inherit the world"). Which puts a bit of a damper on the whole Wittgenstein was saying what was and was not true bit seeing as he had pre-axiomatic logic that undermined much of what he would say is or is not true. Also I only know about le chat noir because my mom had a picture of that in our house and she's amazing so there. Meaning she was into puzzles and interesting things such as this. This may or may not be the Aeon. This most likely happens to be the Universe card as it includes an area in which women watched from behind a screen as it was a muslim observatory (I believe). You can see that Crowley was a bit of a misogynist and this would of course be one of the reasons my mother most likely had the cat picture (the guy's an evil asshole as opposed to a raging bitch - et cetera - god gender politics are obnoxious). Could we make a mystery religion that doesn't involve my genitals are cooler than yours? Ugh... If it wasn't this observatory it was one much similar. AND - if you look at the tower card which has the civil war reference and then you look at this they both feature an eye and so this may be the idea that "civil war between the genders is bad". Which may be an interesting take.
And Temperance is the glockenspiel in Munich. So that's a thing. So what would be intemperate? I *think* the hanged man is Klimpt's The Kiss. It is because I say so so there.
The fool has to be Tyger Tyger.
I am not unaware that the feature is a clockwork representation of the tiger which is reminiscent of the glockenspiel. So it may not in fact be the fool, but a "temperance" of what the fool could be but is not. The fool and the Aeon card may be linked by the lamb poem. Or maybe the guy that died in India had COVID to a young kid and that's why he was eaten by a tiger. That's one way to do it. Adjustment (justice) - is a harlequin of some sort but where it comes from specifically I don't know. It has a pyramid in one side (the Louvre) and what looks like a grave in the other. So the whole art angle could be a joke or a reference to the idea of does your heart way less than a feather - the lion is strength in the rider waite tarot deck and so the theme of the crowley deck could be the crocodile.
The Crocodile By Lewis Carroll How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spread his claws, And welcomes little fishes in With gently smiling jaws!
So that would be the one about the "joker" - the grinning crocodile - while the "thief" would be (and it makes sense with the sword card being a unicorn horn and the crown) - rider waite deck.
The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown. The lion beat the unicorn All around the town. Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown, Some gave them plum cake And drummed them out of town.
There was a sunday comic strip from two years ago from a spooked paper where all the comics were oddly prescient that had a reebok caught between a lion and a crocodile where he didn't know what he should do. So that's a thing apparently. It would have had to have been Easter Sunday two years ago and from the Washington Post. If that matters. This is probably the hierophant which brings us back to the reference to the CAKE song as it's at Cambridge as opposed to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton. Interestingly - Cambridge has an image as opposed to a word. So that could be the critique. Notice that the coat of arms follows the pictogram of four animals. This is most likely the chariot. Rather than having the sphinxes be mixed they're each black and white suggesting reading. I can't claim credit for that one - it was on ycombinator. The Emperor is the king of hearts but "the lion lays down with the lamb" (Richard the lion hearted) and the king doesn't commit suicide. The emperoress is similar but she's empty handed - the queen of diamonds? I don't know what the iconography for the shields means although it could have something to do with European politics. I don't know. It's hard to do the other ones because you can't tell how much of the are jokes versus which ones are supposed to be taken seriously - see the black cat metaphor. For example lust could be lady godiva but that seems too easy. On the other hand if you're going to critique a tree of life conception (graph theory) with something closer to set theory (venn diagram) then the hierophant metaphor with the rings and a re-imagining of the ace of cups makes more sense. And then rather than the ace of swords being strength it becomes passion/lust. And then rather than going from ace of swords becomes silence becomes the world you have ace of wands becomes passion becomes the hermit. So whereas one of them is meant to be the "lake" wherein you go in and then come out, the other is the mountain wherein you go up and then come down. So there are wildly differing interpretations based on what deck you're using. Including possibly the Levi deck.
So that's fucking bonkers. Eh. Information theory to hide secrets. Incredibly complicated and of dubious use. Oh and it should be mentioned that if you buy a tarot deck (specifically a thoth deck if I remember correctly) it comes with a blank card (which is like writing your name in the book of the devil, the Taylor Swift song, and the Chronicles of Amber book series). Another thing worth mentioning. So that's all weird. Huh. I'm not unaware with the connection between this puzzle and the 1001 Nights. It's a puzzle not a free-zer.
And I'm just going to leave this here. And if you quote stupid book at me I'll ask which you'd be more likely to read. Interestingly - note that the cover looks like the Universe card -
And so if you look at the Adjustment card wherein you have a balance on a scale - do you go to India and look at the stars from the observatory or do you read about how doing so is bad? As it pertains to the tower card the same could be said of what you have seen - paintings or real life in terms of civil war. Going back to the hierophant - it could also mean a buddhist staff or shepherder. Interesting. So some thought was put into this. In any case I've had about enough of all of this for the moment and I'm going to go wander around and pee on something. Going and doing the exciting thing is not necessarily ideal as you could be eaten by a tiger so there is that.