This past week The Rupture published my review of Permanent Exhibit by Matthew Vollmer. It's a good book, so make sure to check it out and to read the full review now because I want to expand a little bit more about the coincidences that led up to its publication. I talked a bit about synchronicity and weird coincidences in the review. How I might open up the book to the place where I stopped reading every time I opened it. How the last chance we had to vote Netanyahu out of power, I was reading Permanent Exhibit, a series of essays written over the course of the 2016 election, the last chance we had to make sure DT never got power. I began to read with a dual sense of hope turning to horror
Since this is the last month entirely in the summer, I wanted to pick a deck that has the same kind of redolent, lavish energy as August. Something that seems like an illusion brought on by excessive heat, a midday nap to collapse of the border of dreams. The Wonderland Tarot from U.S. Games Systems felt right. This deck is a Rider-Waite-Colman homage by the team of Christopher and Morgana Abbey. Morgana Abbey's artwork is a perfect rendition of the original Sir John Tenniel illustrations of the original Alice books, imagery that fits the Major Arcana surprising well. Less so for the Minor Arcana. Full disclosure: I've never liked this deck. And it's mostly because of the way the suits have
