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...demand for foreknowledge of practically everything supports a professional industry whose size is barely hinted at by the hovering legions of astrologers, fortune tellers, palmists, mystics, clairvoyants, tarot cardists and stock-market analysts. In fact, the craze for foretelling (and being foretold) runs so deep that it has incurably infected the one profession whose redeeming mission is actually to discover what happened yesterday: journalism. Even though this obligation regularly taxes its competence, journalism today spends a surprising amount of its energy transmitting what it cannot possibly know for sure. Not only tabloids like the National Enquirer but sober organs like...
...that is a conventional call. Let the Tarot cards make the slightly wilder surmise: Senator Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2004 against the bumbling incumbent, President George W. Bush. And will win, to become America's first woman president...
...puffed upon his underslung pipe. "When I see a man shuffling a tarot deck, certain conclusions become manifest - the first of which is that you are wasting your time with occult twaddle...
Kent Quander '79, one of the two occupants of the suite, said he was upstairs in a friend's room "reading tarot cards" when he heard the fire alarm...
This time, both the guests and their setting (a tavern) are seedier. So are the cards, the so-called Marseille tarots first printed in the 18th century. More mythic figures appear among the guests, but the stories also take on sooty overtones of industrialism and hints of the modern totalitarian state. The author seeks his own story in the pack. "Perhaps," he ventures, "the moment has come to admit that only tarot number one honestly depicts what I have succeeded in being: a juggler, or conjurer, who arranges on a stand at a fair a certain number of objects...