``Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks."
-- Rene Daumal, A Night of Serious Drinking

The Fool is a wanderer, energetic, ubiquitous, and immortal. He is the most powerful of all the Tarot Trumps. Since he has no fixed number he is free to travel at will, often upsetting the established order with his pranks. --Sallie Nichols, Jung and Tarot Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain -- --Emily Dickinson

He wrote secret notes to people he hadn't met yet. Some of them aren't even born, he said, but we live in a strange neighborhood and they will need help figuring things out and I won't always be around to explain it to them.
--Brian Andreas, Mostly True

In certain localities even the priests seem to have adhered to the libertas decembrica, as the Fool's Holiday was called, in spite (or perhaps because?) of the fact that the older level of consciousness could let itself rip on this happy occasion with all the wildness, wantonness, and irresponsibility of paganism.
--C.J. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

The wife of the old miller said, ``It is said they (the Faery) are mostly good neighbors, but the stroke of the fool is what there is no cure for; anyone that gets that is gone."
--W.B. Yeats, The Queen and the Fool

Fool Dreams

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