Chapter 7 has so much for us to talk about!!! Like every chapter the synoptic headers can keep a feller up all night researching. We find many things here. Another chapter on blackness. Deaths of magic and the history of science. Legal motifs like crazy...some we didn't even get to. After all Cormac McCarthy had a few people close to him in law...so it shouldn't be a surprise he has words like "some vortex in that waste apposite to which mans transit and his reckonings alike lay abrogate."

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Did you know a regular decks of cards relates to the tarot deck in some ways? Did you know, that a deck of cards is calendrical? Yep both decks have temporal allusions like this wonderful novel.

All art has elements of time-related allusions. A still life is one tiny moment frozen in an image. So is a photograph. A film is 24 frames per second. 

A regular deck of cards has 52 cards, like 52 weeks in a. year. The cards are black or red, like day and night. 4 suits like 4 seasons. Spades, summer. Hearts, Fall. Diamonds, Winter. Clubs, fall. And each suit has 13 cards to represent the lunar cycles. Jokers can help with tracking a year...with adding the numbers of all the suits you get 364...use 2 Jokers for leap year!

Tarot cards also have calendrical qualities. Of interest for Blood Meridian there are 78 tarot cards in a deck. Minus 22 Major Arcana and you have 56 cards. 78 cards might relate to the several 7's and 8's in the novel 7x8 is 56.

But meanwhile...

Monday-The High Priestess

Tuesday- The Tower

Wednesday-The Magician

Thursday-Wheel of Fortune

Friday-The Emperess

Saturday-The World

Sunday-The Sun

Aries-The Emperor

Taurus-The Hierophant

Gemini-The Lovers

Cancer-The Chariot

Leo-Strength

Virgo-The Hermit

Libra-Justice

Scorpio-Death

Sagitarius-Temperance

Aquarius-The Star

Pisces-The Moon