Little, Big: 52; Eigenblick

Adam Stephanides · 12 May 2000, 09:16 · from urth-v0029.mbox · original

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From: Adam Stephanides <adamsteph at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Little, Big: 52; Eigenblick
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 09:16:09
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Nutria wrote:
>=20
> Maybe there are "two"
> decks of 52 cards, one positive and one negative. Fairies and anti-fairie=
s.
> Demons and gods. Those moving out of the Christian/Humanist world move bo=
th
> ways or either way. Make sense?
>         In which case, the "war" is not merely the red-herring I original=
ly
> thought. The negative 52 are "winter" and the positive 52 are "summer." A=
nd
> they are involved in an eternal "war."

Making Eigenblick's henchmen the positive deck?  But Eigenblick regards
himself as an ally of the fairies, though they cheat him in the end.=20
And Eigenblick and the fairies collaborate to bring about "winter."

> The people of "our" world wind up with a
> legend that someday Eigenblick will return.

But as Ariel points out, there have been many legends of dead leaders
someday returning; most are not true.  Moreover, Barbarossa [Eigenblick]
really had been put to sleep for a thousand years, having been "stored
up" by the fairies so that he could return.  But Eigenblick is ensconced
as king in the fairy country, and (at least as I see it) unlikely to
return.

--Adam

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