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Winter Solstice and a Wicked Pack of Cards: Discovering Pamela Colman Smith
Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante,
Had a bad cold, nevertheless
Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe,
With a wicked pack of cards….
—T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
I keep revisiting the modernists, grudgingly and by accident. In the wake of a loss, last week I discovered the illustrator of T.S. Eliot’s “wicked pack of cards.”
I know those cards well; I …
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