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 Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:08 am Post subject: World's Craziest Card Games |
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WELCOME!
World's Craziest Card Games:
Liquidation
Hardcover
By Nobel Prize winner 2002 Imre Kertesz
| Quote: | "You must be thinking of Lager poker," Oblath enlightened me. "A simple game, simple rules. The players sit around the table and each person says where they have been. Only the place-name, nothing else. That was the basis for determining the value of the chips. As best I remember, two Kistarcsas were worth one Fo Street ... one Mauthausen, one and a half Recsks ..."
"That's open to dispute, though." Kurti showed signs of life. "Even now I would find it hard to decide."
Sarah: "A cynical game, that."
"What was cynical about it?" Kurti flared up. "We had no money, we were only able to play with the values that life had dealt us."
"Am I right in recollecting that Bee pulled out of that hand?" I asked.
"Right." Oblath grinned. "He didn't want to cheat. He must have been aware from the beginning that he had a royal flush up his sleeve."
"Auschwitz." Kurti nodded. "Untrumpable." -- p. 51 |
Kertesz on luck:
| Quote: | | "Never put a gloss on the truth," he would instruct the family. "Don't accept ready-made cheap words. Let us at least keep our nerve; that can't be nationalized. Look facts in the face: The reason we are able to live here, the reason we have any dwelling at all, is because, luckily, the original owners were exterminated. Otherwise we would have nowhere to live. There you are...that's Hungarian luck for you," he added (nomen est omen) bitterly. -- p. 36. |
On chance:
| Quote: | | ... While I was listening to my wife - I recall it precisely - my attention was increasingly focused on her upper lip, that harmoniously arched, slightly short upper lip with which I had originally fallen in love, and I mused on what an absurd thing love is after all, that a person's entire frail life is founded on such absurdities. One fine day, we wake up with a stranger in a strange bedroom, I thought to myself, and never again do we find our way back to ourselves: Our impossible life is determined by chance, lust, and the whim of a moment, I thought to myself. -- p. 47 |
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Famous Four-Flushers:
Europeana
A Brief History of the Twentieth Century
Paperback
By Patrik Ourednik
| Quote: | | Psychoanalysis became widespread in Western Europe in the sixties and seventies and people entered therapy who were not ill but felt helpless and abandoned and wanted to know if they had any traumas. And when patients had got over their shyness and relaxed, they would tell the psychoanalyst about their childhood, and that was called displacement because eventually they would recollect something they had purged from their memory during childhood, because they did not realize that in mental life everything survived, and that although something might be purged from memory for a while, it survived somewhere, and so the patient would give the psychoanalyst verbal clues that the psychoanalyst could follow. Displacement was when some little boy or girl had an urge that was at odds with morality and so they banished the instinct to their subconscious, but when they grew up and became adults, they could have strange dreams for instance, which showed they had a trauma. And the Oedipus complex was when a little girl wanted to kill her mother in order to have sexual intercourse with her father, or a little boy wanted to kill his father in order to have sexual intercourse with his mother, but they knew very well it was not allowed. There were disputes among the specialists about the Oedipus complex, because some thought it was universal, while others thought it occurred only in certain cultures - in Vienna, etc. And in 1918 a congress was held in Budapest on psychoanalysis and its role in wartime, and most psychiatrists agreed that wartime neurosis had the same causes as peacetime neurosis. And various psychiatrists suggested treating neurosis with electric shock and they kept treating soldiers with electric shock until the soldiers declared they felt completely fit. But other psychiatrists did not agree with this and said that electric shock simply pushed traumas deeper into the unconscious but they did not actually cure them. And others said that soldiers faked traumas in order to spend the war in lunatic asylums and play cards with the other lunatics for money or cigarettes. (-- pgs. 51-52) |
Yes, and unbelievably, the medical estatblishment is still using electro-shock therapy, this according to a BBC news report of March 12, 1999. Get this:
| Quote: | Electric shock therapy 'not up to scratch'
Electric shock treatment for mental health disorders is often administered by poorly trained junior doctors, it has been claimed. A report into the use of Electro Convulsive Therapy (ECT) found that the doctors are also often left unsupervised, and have to rely on out of date equipment. The report - commissioned by the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) and highlighted by the BBC Two programme Trust Me, I'm A Doctor - also presents disturbing evidence that people are being prescribed the treatment inappropriately.
Only one third of the clinics in England and Wales were rated as good.
ECT involves delivering electric shocks to the brain. The electric current can provoke a fit or spasm, but also appears to have a beneficial impact on mental illnesses such as depression. |
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The Ninth Configuration
DVD
| Quote: | Written and directed by the same sick individual who gave us The Exorcist, this one feels almost like an apology one might take seriously. A bunch of 'Nam vet psychos are holed up somewhere in the Pacific Northwest in an authentic German castle we're told was donated for the war effort by the wealthy Biltmore family, who supposedly had the place reconstructed there. Our mission in the film is to find out whether Stacy Keach is the psychiatrist with the right stuff to save these lunatics or if he's really just one of them.
In this scene, we have a terrific rainstorm, a medic with no pants, a black guy in blackface and white gloves singing along with Al Jolson and five inmates who assume the position at a card table under a particularly affecting wall sconce of a gargoyle: |
| Quote: | Guy 1: OK, seven cards.
Guy 2: Anything wild?
Guy 3: Deuces, threes, fives, sevens, nines and Jacks.
Guy 1: You are a very sick man. (Cuts the cards repeatedly).
Guy 3: Are you finished?
Guy 1: Most people cut them only once.
Guy 3: Thirteen is my lucky number.
Guy 1: Jacks are better. Come on.
Guy 3: Kings or better!
Guy 1: (Calmly) No, Jacks or better.
Guy 3: I am dealing. I call it.
Guy 2: Did I not hear something about wild cards at the outset?
Guy 3: Yes.
Guy 2: Would you repeat that?
Guy 3: Deuces, threes, fives, sevens, nines and Jacks.
Guy 2: Would you like to add a one-eyed king?
Guy 1: Deal. Please. |
Based on the novel:
Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane
Paperback
By William Peter Blatty
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