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What better way to ring in the New Year than with a freeranging discussion of the dreaded thirteenth arcanum of the tarot? Of all topics, surely death needs the least introduction. Or does it? To those of us who inhabit the castellated compounds of post-industrial privilege, it is perhaps too easy to forget the uninvited guest who skulks in the shadows, touching each of us in turn as he sidles past. "Nothing is certain except death and taxes," Benjamin Franklin once wrote. He was joking, of course. The truth is that death is the only certainty.
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\\n\\nHeader image: Detail from Harry Clarke\'s illustration for "The Masque of the Red Death," from the 1919 edition of Edgar Allan Poe\'s Tales of Mystery and Imagination.
\\n\\nSHOW NOTES
\\n\\nBrian George, Masks of Origin
\\nChris Leech, The Gnostic Tarot
\\nOur Known Friend, Meditations on the Tarot
\\nRachel Pollack, Tarot Wisdom
\\nRachel Pollack, 78 Degrees of Wisdom
\\nEdgar Allen Poe, \\u201cThe Masque of the Red Death\\u201d
\\nWeird Studies, Episode 2 on Garmonbozia
\\nSteven Spielberg (dir.), Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
\\nWeird Studies, Episode 137 on Sunn O)))\\u2019s \\u201cLife Metal\\u201d
\\nAleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth
\\nThomas Browne, \\u201cUrn Burial\\u201d
\\nFederico Campagna, Technic and Magic
\\nAlejandro Jodorowsky, The Way of Tarot
\\nSallie Nichols, Tarot and the Archetypal Journey
\\nClive Barker, Hellraiser
\\nWeird Studies, Episode 116 on \\u201cBlade Runner\\u201d
\\nGeorge Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic
\\nBody without organs, philosophical concept
\\nElizabeth Le Guin, Boccherini\\u2019s Body
\\nG. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
\\nWeird Studies, Episode 126 with Matt Cardin