To the moot again this week (I'm the one sitting on the bar). The conversation turned to card games, & as frequently happens, our remembered rules differed. We didn't have a pack of normal playing cards so played Strip Jack Naked with Ana Cortez's Playing Cards Oracles deck. I remember playing this with my dad. I don't remember playing the game we played on Tuesday with my dad. Anyway, this game went on & on. It became apparent that that deck has a sense of humour all its own, & the game just would not work out for about an hour. This of course is the stuff of which legends are made: 'a witch once played card games with a Grand Etteilla & is stll there now'. That, kids, is what acomes of misusing your divination tools.
A man with a northern accent came over to us & said that he expected that pub to be full of 'West Indians' (no, I don't think for an instant that that was what he was looking for). I told him that they wouldn't go there & he asked why. How can he not have realised that it's a gay pub? So I told him that it was reserved for witches only.
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Do you see the cobbles on the streets? Everywhere you look, stone & rock. Can you imagine what it feels like to reach down with your bones & feel the living stones? The city is built on itself, all the cities that came before. Can you imagine how it feels to lie down on an ancient flagstone & feel the power of the rock buoying you up against the tug of the world? And that's where witchcraft begins. The stones have life, & I'm part of it. - adapted from Terry Pratchett
Thursday, April 4, 2013
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