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From: "michelle phil lewis-king" <king.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:29:43 -0000
" The hook may be identified with the eighteenth letter of the Hebrew
alphabet, Tzaddi, representing a fish hook or roof. An esoteric
interpretation identifies Tzaddi (the Star) with the Fool, the first or last
card of the Major Arcana. Tzaddi connects the clearly revealed with the
image of drawing fish out of water.
Fish are equated with with transforming reproductive power, while one of
the meanings of water relates it to subconscious mentality. Thus Tzaddi -
the water bearer and sign of dissolution - is concerned with the
subconscious powers of artists in discovering new art forms.
The Fool, on the other hand, is a man with power which may or not be used
according to the dictates of wisdom. On one level the Fool represents
impulsive behavior, a creature without true knowledge. Quite likely then,
the Hook is a symbol of any advanced artistic impulse leading towards new
aesthetic and ultimately spiritual discovery. " Jack Burnham. "Duchamps
Bride Stripped Bare." 'Arts' Magazine 1972
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>Charles Gavette posted
"[Fools} have a magical affinity with chaos that might allow them to
> serve as scapegoats on behalf of order; yet they elude the sacrifice or
> the banishment that would affirm order at their expense....They wrest
> life from the "destructive element" while ridiculing the ancient dream
> that vistory over it is possible,...and while ridiculing even more the
> idea that vistory over it may be achieved through observances of rules
> of conduct. Fools induce chaos by violating those rules. They may look
> on passively, innocently, even benignly, while the sympathetic image
> that binds them to it works. Though they may seem innocently detached
> from it, it may be an active form of their folly. It may be overtly
> demonic, but it may also take a playful form, and it may emerge as the
> fool's guiding spirit in transvaluation of values with him at its
> center." (William Willeford, "The Fool and His Scepter.")
" In the schizo the two aspects of the process are conjoined: the
metaphysical process that puts us in contact with the "demoniacal" element
in nature or within the heart of the earth, and the historical process of
social production that restores the autonomy of desiring-machines in
relation to the detteritorialized social machine. " Ao pp35
p.
