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Pack of cards

R Pack of cards

The four suits of the Tarot pack, discussed by Jessie Weston in From Ritual to Romance, are the cup, lance, sword, and dish - the life symbols found in the Grail story. Weston noted that "today the Tarot has fallen somewhat into disrepute, being principally used for purposes of divination." (NA)

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Eliot's Note to line 46 →
link two →Title of “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar”Title of "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" linguistic analysis The syntactic parallelism of the title is striking, and in that particularly the presence of a colon. The syntactic structures of the title's two constituents are exactly the same -…Click for the full annotation →
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