Spengler Centennial Series Playing Cards

It's the ultimate playing card deck for the Western intellectual, based on a loose re-imagining of Oswald Spengler’s Decline of the West, using a similar concept to Marshall McLuhan’s DEW Line deck:  The Spengler Series Playing Cards (First Edition).
 
AH -- JERUSALEM / THE MAGIAN SOUL
2H -- 2:1
3H -- “...porque Diós es amor.”
4H -- Panini’s Grammar is not the engine driving linguistics over a cliff, it’s the fuel.
5H -- China is a rather crude name for the Middle Kingdom
6H -- Your name says far more about you than you will likely ever realize.
7H -- The Rambam asks Saladin, “So, how’s business?”...
8H -- The first-person plural — a union — tends to be quite divisive.
9H -- How high was Timur’s pile of skulls?
10H -- Does anyone know for certain when Zarathustra was born?JH -- Both Aristotle and Alexander were Macedonian.
QH -- The Qu’ran was originally compiled on Chinese paper in Syria.
KH -- Charlemagne was illiterate, but built great grammar schools.
AC -- ATHENS / THE APOLLONIAN SOUL
2C -- Key Mayan codices remain deliberately buried.
3C -- Rosetta Stone™ emphasizes speech, not literacy.
4C -- Are IKEA and ABBA Swedish idealism?
5C -- Are there any personal questions?
6C -- Ice hockey is a strong reflection of Canadian identity.
7C -- The Tower of Jericho was not built just to store grain...
8C -- Was Proto-Indo-European spoken ever-so-briefly?
9C -- The safest -- but not sanest -- person in a circus tent is the ringmaster.
10C -- There are no true primitives left on Earth.
JC -- Was there a wheat field at Gobekli Teppe?
QC -- Chess is a game of pure deception.
KC -- Street food is simply not the best way to sample a culture.
AD -- ALEXANDRIA / THE FAUSTIAN SOUL
2D -- The Gestalt is the most powerful psychological tool ever conceived.
3D -- Nixon was a paranoid bigot, but not a crook!
4D -- The Matrix was inspired by more than one dominatrix!
5D -- From which direction did Ali Baba of 1,001 Arabian Nights wander?
6D -- The Star of David represents Benjamin and Judah.
7D -- Pardon my French; I have a very high IQ!
8D -- The spire of Lincoln Cathedral was doomed to burn down.
9D -- The Frankenstein Monster of the United States of America is Federalist No. 10.
10D -- What was reborn during the Italian Renaissance?
JD -- Carl Jung was the most influential religious figure of the 20th century.
QD -- Are Tiger Brook and Vinegar Tasters heretical scrolls?
KD -- “Beatniks are out to make it rich, must be the season of the witch.”
AS -- ROME
2S -- Grammar
3S -- Rhetoric
4S -- Philosophy
5S -- Arithmetic
6S -- Geometry
7S -- Music
8S -- Astronomy
9S -- Brazil
10S -- Russia
JS -- India
QS -- China
KS -- South Africa
Joker -- Being [black/white]
Joker -- Becoming [color]

What you get:

>> One deck of custom playing cards
>> Access to discussion forum with author and other buyers of the same products

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