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"What a fool believes he sees, no wise man can reason away." This line from a Doobie Brothers song is probably one of the most profound in the history of rock-\'n\'-roll. It is profound for all the reasons (or unreasons) explored in this discussion, which lasers in on just one of the major trumps of the traditional tarot deck, that of the Fool. The Fool is integral to the world, yet stands outside it. The Fool is an idiot but also a sage. The Fool does not know; s/he intuits, improvises a path through the brambles of existence. We intend this episode on the Fool to be the first in an occasional series covering all twenty-two of the major trumps of the Tarot of Marseilles.

REFERENCES

The Fool in the tarot
\\nSt. Paul\'s First Epistle to the Corinthians
\\nMeditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism
\\nAleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth
\\nPlato, Phaedrus
\\nWeird Studies episode 60 - Space is the Place: On Sun Ra, Gnosticism, and the Tarot
\\nTill Eulenspiegel, folk figure
\\nAleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears
\\nWeird Studies episode 75 - Our Old Friend the Monolith: On Stanley Kubrick\'s 2001: A Space Odyssey
\\nWeird Studies episode 76 - Below the Abyss: On Bergson\'s Metaphysics
\\nRider-Waite Tarot Deck
\\nRichard Wagner, Parsifal
\\nG. W. F. Hegel, German philosopher
\\nRamsey Dukes, Words Made Flesh: Information in Formation
\\nGeorge Spencer Brown, Laws of Form
\\nAlain Badiou, Deleuze: The Clamor of Being
\\nPunch and Judy, British puppet show
\\nGeorge P. Hansen, The Trickster and the Paranormal
\\nLin Yutang, The Importance of Living
\\nThomas Mann, Death in Venice
\\nPhil Ford\'s lecture on Death in Venice (Patreon exclusive!)
\\nFyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
\\nHal Ashby (dir.), Being There
\\nAlejandro Jodorowsky and Marianne Costa, The Way of the Tarot
\\nFrank Pavich (dir.), Jodorowsky\\u2019s Dune
\\nTarot of Marseilles
\\nAndr\\xe9 Breton, French surrealist artist