Professor Carrie Jenkins’ philosophy tarot reading
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HOW TO READ IN TRANSLATION
HINT:
AS ABOVE A CONFORMALLY COMPACTIFIED
MINKOWSKI SPACE WITH N DIMENSIONS SO
BELOW A CONFORMALLY COMPACTIFIED N-
PLUS-ONE DIMENSIONAL ANTI DE SITTER
SPACE
in the beginning was the translation A
SPACE OF THREE PLUS ONE DIMENSIONS
and the translation was with the text ITS
TWO-PLUS-ONE DIMENSIONAL SURFACE
and the translation was the text A FLAT
CODE AT INFINITY MADE SOLID BODY
NOW YOU TRY:
the translation was with the text in the
beginning through it all things are made
and without it nothing is made that is
made in it is life and that life is the story
of us the story shines in the darkness AND
THE DARKNESS HAS NOT UNDERSTOOD IT
TEN OF CUPS
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VANISHING TWIN SYNDROME
they call me chimera
for my skin a thing of shreds
for my patchy dna
for my two originals
they call me
theia and gaia
they call me neanderthal and homo sapiens
they call me lilith
failed beta test of a second sex
they call me
spin-off untrustworthy mutable
they call me lunar
and archean anorthoside (rock
which is not straight)
they call me
solve
et
coagula
18 THE MOON
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THE SPIRIT ROBBER
of course i know now we had
hanner y gwersi yn gymraeg
because when a language is no
longer learned by young children
the end is nigh af globally speaking
linguistic diversity is in decline
although the most powerful magic
might resuscitate a corpse who’s to
say it should (a corpse is a corpse of
course of course and no one can
talk) in the cement room we took
the lesson all over the spinning
green blue globe our languages lay
dying (dying) and by the word
(logos) of the lord were the heavens
established and all the host of them
by the spirit (pneuma) of his mouth
KING OF SWORDS
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