Quote deck: v. 2.0

As many of you know, I have a self-created divination deck, referred to as my quote deck. It works on three levels of meaning: the literal meaning of the words on the card, the quote in the context of the story, and the reason that quote has an emotional impact on me. One of my requirements for including a quote in this deck is that I have to know the book well enough that I can thumb directly to the page with minimal fuss.

I've been using version 1.0 since mid-2005, and it is time to do a formal update. I'm removing a few quotes that seem never to turn up, and that are reasonable duplicates of other quotes in the deck, and I'm adding some others. (You will see gaps in the numbers, as a result: I use the numbers as shorthand in my divination notes, so I don't want to renumber.)

This deck tends to be snarky, but *very* clear and pointed. I usually run it in tandem with a Tarot reading (one card of each for each position) which I find works really well, but I have also run it on its own. Reading for other people is tricky, because I've got to explain two layers of meaning: the context in the story (unless they know the work it comes from), and the emotional impact for *me* (which they won't know anyway).

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