cataloguing
extreme L pink mirroring- tissue has centre ovrlap. Held to light or backlit, when glazed, might be caught by camera as delicate overlap : Maybe cut flowrs judiciously -placed.
middl green page 14aug07. Punch holes hint at matching tissue overlap.
The alien j.s. fig. uppr LH is now in c4 Capua lexicon as ’ virus001 ’ .
RH pink2 - - 20" width supports various hues (wadTreatment a half doz pink 8.5x5.5s).
...item pink front / back cd serve as triptych (good for camera work).

cataloguing
...thought I’d tracked a nuisance (slippery) inventory to yr 2007 note
"below (inventory) summer- use paper"
which might refr to ovrSize industrial acquisitn of (photographic? - resined) stock, and givn ’heat’ instructns RECYCLR cd use an iron?
...a few experimnts in the interim - - croppd this resined substrate to 10x20" - - still unmanageabl but whn ironing, width accommodates three 5.5" pp.

...most indications are that :
- Pushkin used only his own culture’s 18th cent. playing deck
- the Russian divinatory system most commonly has lettered cards & approp Russian folk tale figures;
- Pushkin’s story even protag Germann’s hallucinations, barely involve Russian folk figures;
...the queen of spades significatns "secret ill- will refer not to the Russian divinatory system but to only the standard playing deck."
...this blogger suggests that given almost 200 yrs, Pushkin’s Queen of Spades influenced the (Tarot) spade suit’s NEGativity - - not the other way around.

"...a short, deceptively simple tale yieldng new meanings... "Germann (char) is a calculating yet imaginative gambler who lusts for wealth; ...a parvenu who covets acceptance in high society and transgresses moral bounds to gain entrance.
Germann is a cad..."

...moon phases imply relationship betw numbers 4 and 7 (four phases of seven days each) - - a year composed of four seasons of three months each. These observatns can be seen throughout time to pile into...
...cartomancy 1 (Tarot arcanas - - Major / Minor)

...cartomancy 2
..."ordinary pl. cards as we know them augmentd by countng the ace as both low/ high or by usng the Joker."

...cartomancy 3
...the Russian O.P.C deck (not divinatory). However, it’s easy to see :

"When Pushkin adapted to his tale the 3-7-1 system, he acquired with it other traditions of myth and religion."

...the dictionary breaks ’thaumaturge’ into thauma (MIRACLE) and work (THEATRE) : More needed, one turns to (THEATRE, WORK).
...Alexander Pushkin by kpg open-ended his tale Q of Spades, mystified 1834 and ensuing readers with (theatrical)- meaning layers of verbal and numerical games. "Inevitably new questions arise and old questions remain unsolved."

...quote from ESOTERIC TRADITION IN RUSSIAN ROMANTIC LIT. by Lauren G. Leighton. Pennsylvania State U.Press U.Park, Penn (1994). Quotation (Ch.7) is a message to those who had mined and might still be mining Pushkin’s short story ’The Queen of Spades’.

...THE WAKE seems a compilation for fans "who’d immed understand allusions that have no meaning for other contemps"...and which future scholars might (also) wish "to recover." I hope they don’t.

...eighteen years ago. Still at it. Can tell by handwritten ’1994’ plus lib. ref LIT 891-709 L52e - - blogger still a membr Van Pub Lib., and verified by 1995 addl reference to CBC April IDEAS re postModernism

- - stories left open...

...for the summr am abandoning Jan-March work re (Gaiman/ Sulli);
...persistent hostility to somethng in Gaiman’s THE WAKE which "for its time" might be right but clarified by designer’s old - -circa 1995 - - notes :

"...some interpretations please even when they are wrong and others do not satisfy even when they are right." (blogger- italics)