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ELEVEN EQUALS ONE PLUS NEGATIVE |
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by Tara Carreon
"The third stage, Unordnung or confusion, occurs when an attempt is made to restore balance or arrive at the Hegelian Synthesis. This correlates with Loki, the Devil, Mercury (god of thieves), Thoth in his role of Trickster, Coyote, and other spirits of illusion or deception; with hexagram 4 in the I Ching, Meng, youthful folly or standing on the brink of the abyss; with the number 11, signifying sin, penance, and revelation; with the 21st trump in the Tarot, the Fool who walks over the abyss; and with the planet or sign of Mercury." -- Robert Anton Wilson, "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" ***
Schafkopf is a point-trick game, normally played with a
German suited 32 card pack. As in several related games, the card values
are ace=11, ten=10, king=4, over=3, under=2, but Schafkopf has the
special feature that the overs and unders are permanent trumps, ranking
above the ace. Schafkopf is considered to be the national card game of
Bavaria. It is also played, probably in several different versions, in
the south-east of Germany. See also "Cross Deconstructed", "Nihilism" and "Doppelgangers" Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser wrote: The same year the McDonald brothers opened their new self-service restaurant, a group of World War II veterans in San Berdoo, alienated by the dullness of civilian life, formed a local motorcycle club, borrowing the nickname of the U.S. Army's Eleventh Airborne Division: "Hell's Angels." The same town that gave the world the golden arches also gave it a biker gang that stood for a totally antithetical set of values. The Hell's Angels flaunted their dirtiness, celebrated disorder, terrified families and small children instead of trying to sell them burgers, took drugs, sold drugs, and injected into American pop culture an anger and a darkness and a fashion statement -- T-shirts and torn jeans, black leather jackets and boots, long hair, facial hair, swastikas, silver skull rings and other satanic trinkets, earrings, nose rings, body piercings, and tattoos -- that would influence a long line of rebels from Marlon Brando to Marilyn Manson. |
