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Peter Gunn.

"On the Manner of Addressing Clouds

Gloomy grammarians in golden gowns,
Meekly you keep the mortal rendezvous,
Eliciting the still sustaining pomps
Of speech which are like music so profound
They seem an exaltation without sound.
Funest philosophers and ponderers,
Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
So speech of your processionals returns
In the casual evocations of your tread
Across the stale, mysterious seasons. These
Are the music of meet resignation; these
The responsive, still sustaining pomps for you
To magnify, if in that drifting waste
You are to be accompanied by more
Than mute bare splendors of the sun and moon."

--Wallace Stevens

"Roland Berrill, the founder of the MENSA organization, came up with the idea for the Royal Fez tarot deck. He hired artist Michael Hobdell to execute the artwork. Hobdell died shortly after completing the project, and Berrill died before his original print run of 500 decks was marketed. Eventually, around 1970, the decks were collected and marketed by Rigel Press, Ltd. Subsequently, US Games and AGMueller released a non-limited edition (in 1975) that remained in print for several years. Berrill's deck was supposedly based on a legend that tarot cards were a remnant of secret societies that once existed in Fez, Morocco. Indeed, the black and white backgrounds of the images could suggest Moroccan landscapes, architecture and culture. However, the featured images are undeniably lifted by Waite and Smith's work."

"The historical sense of castles is so entrenched that most will assume any spirit of the stair must be former royal prisoner or warden. Of course, it's just as likely the ghost of a visitor from 1959 who fell to their death before they installed the guide ropes." – C. Josiffe (via @HooklandGuide)

Storm Sepia Symmetry.