>
>Another good one is a book by James Cabal..??? Hmm, can't remember. Good
>idea though - a bunch of Las Vegas low-life turn out to be the most
>important people in the world as they are the Tarot archetypes - The
>Heirophant, The Lovers, The Magician....
>
>One of the interesting ideas was playing cards are a "corrupt" version of
>the Tarot, and one of the characters was the One Eyed Jack. Other
>interesting bits were the gamblers supersitions.
>
>I always thought this would make quite a good modern noir game. Might even
>be possible to map the Tarot archetypes to HW heroic/godly structure...
That sounds more like a (slightly confused) memory of Tim Power's
_Last Call_ than any of Cabell's books.
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