Diving into some early Holiday/Birthday presents this afternoon from the lovely @vhellmer, Encounters Around The Tarot Volumes 1 & 2 by Enrique Enriquez (with a few fanciful impressions of my own) Imagine if you will- a sparsely lit Loft party in the Village, held by our curating author (EE) on the pretense of a gallery opening or performance art piece. In attendance are notable members of the NY and International Meta-Literati: Artists, Historians, Philosophers, Writers and Professors (as well as Magician or two.) Conversation begins formally at first, with talk of books recently read and shows participated in or seen; but as one cup becomes III or IV the conversation treads back to the shared passion of their host and true raison d'etre-the Marseille Tarot. Even if this spectacular gathering is just a personal invention of my reading experience, there is an undeniable thread that flows through these individual works. They read less like essays and more like Socratic dialogues. As spoken word pieces they communicate ideas stripped of dusty scholarship and instead show Tarot as being an intimately applicable, free-form, present tense visual language. For those of us who consider Tarot a bottomless subject of interest (a true "Hobby Horse" a la Tristram Shandy) then you’ll find plenty to hold your attention. It is as Camelia Elias describes it in her introduction to Volume One- "A feast.” #tarot #tarotreadersofinstagram #enriqueenriquez #highvibereads #tarotdemarseille #marseilletarot #milleniummarseille #viscontisforza #noblettarot #zebrowskinoblet #dodaltarot #robledododal #tarotstudy #instagrambookreviews #hobbyhorse #encountersaroundthetarot #tarology #enterexit