Cosmic Edges

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"the fool is hurt"

"the fool is hurt"

la strada / interlude

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The tarot is “the fool’s journey,” beginning at the fool’s card, card zero, and yesterday’s Saturn/clowns post sent me back to Fellini’s La Strada (1954), where the fool is tightrope walker, prophet, scapegoat, enlivener, irritator, buffoon, and boundary crosser. He wakes something up in Gelsomina, and when he dies, she repeats “the fool is hurt, the fo…

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