arcana

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Numerous of the cards in the major arcana, the trump cards, are fairly logical.

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  • There was no one who knew more about arcana, such as renewal, the manufacturing clause, and conceptual separability.
  • AMELIE, THE HATER, provides this timely bit of tele-arcana from the 1970s: PLEASE NOTE THE TRUCK DRIVER, who seems to me to be obviously drunk.
  • The tarot deck of cards're divided into the minor arcana — they correspond to the fifty-two-card playing deck — and the major arcana, zero through twenty-one. —  The Twelfth Card
  • Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot One day, perhaps, I'll finish the major arcana: seven cards, and seven little stories, still to go. —  Smoke and Mirrors, by Neil Gaiman.
  • The last card to come up was one of the major arcana, the High Priestess. —  John Sandford - The Empress File
 

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