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[PUZZLE?] The Dealer's three "clues"
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 		[PUZZLE?] The Dealer's three "clues"
In Tips for the Living, the dealer says

"If you look sharp, you'll see that every life turns on a few big hands. You'll be going along just like always and then something will tip you off—a clock ticking backwards, say, or a suicide king just staring at you funny. A blind man talking to angels only he can see."

As has been pointed out in the A closer look at the cemetery thread, it looks almost like Lucy's watch is running backwards in the video. This got me thinking about the other 2 clues. I can't play poker from work to check, has anyone noticed anything strange about the suicide kings in the poker game? Or anything that might have anything to do with that last sentence in the quote? I thought maybe this could use a thread of its own.

Edit - Changed topic, move to General - Ehsan
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 		i'll keep an eye on the face cards next time

fyi for those who don't know:

The Suicide King is the king of hearts, traditionally drawn holding the sword on his shoulder, making it look like he's stabbing himself in the head.
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 		You see the four kings (sort of) in this thread. I don't see anything odd about them there, and I didn't notice anything odd last night.

I tried suicideking as a player name, but that appears to just be a normal player.

That last line, about the blind man talking to angels, sounds really familar to me, but I don't know from what. Not the exact language, but a story I'd heard at one point.

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 		Sometimes at the poker table - in the dealer "chatter" - there is a line that reads, "__ posts the dead" instead of "__ posts the blind" or something like that. I thought it was just a poker term...is it?

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StarkRavingMad wrote:
That last line, about the blind man talking to angels, sounds really familar to me, but I don't know from what. Not the exact language, but a story I'd heard at one point.


Hm. There's a blind man that gets cured in the gospels, there's a blind man that speaks to an angel in the Quran, I believe (Ehsan?) and angels are a not uncommon motif in the works of particular sci-fi authors.

Are you sure you're thinking of a particular story and not just a common mythic motif? (I'm just asking, btw, because no specific folktales or myths are coming to mind right away, but considering the fact that I am sick, hungry and very tired right now, my recall may not be in top form.)
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Dr_Pangloss wrote:
Sometimes at the poker table - in the dealer "chatter" - there is a line that reads, "__ posts the dead" instead of "__ posts the blind" or something like that. I thought it was just a poker term...is it?

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From answers.com

post dead
To post a bet amount equal to the small and the big blind combined (the amount of the large blind playing as a live blind, and the amount of the small blind as dead money). In games played with blinds, a player who steps away from the table and misses his turn for the blinds must either post dead or wait for the big blind to re-enter the game.

That is an interesting connection, though, between the two terms.
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 		"Post the dead" does appear to be a poker term. I think it has something to do with getting back into the game if you sit out a hand while you would have one of the blinds.

Edit: Eep, ninja'd

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Phaedra wrote:
StarkRavingMad wrote:
That last line, about the blind man talking to angels, sounds really familar to me, but I don't know from what. Not the exact language, but a story I'd heard at one point.


Hm. There's a blind man that gets cured in the gospels, there's a blind man that speaks to an angel in the Quran, I believe (Ehsan?) and angels are a not uncommon motif in the works of particular sci-fi authors.

Are you sure you're thinking of a particular story and not just a common mythic motif? (I'm just asking, btw, because no specific folktales or myths are coming to mind right away, but considering the fact that I am sick, hungry and very tired right now, my recall may not be in top form.)


That's about what I could come up with from google searching...The only literature that popped instantly into my head at the mention of angels was Sean Stewart's Resurrection Man Wink.
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Dasro_Kast wrote:
That's about what I could come up with from google searching...The only literature that popped instantly into my head at the mention of angels was Sean Stewart's Resurrection Man Wink.


*chuckle*

But also, for example, Sharon Shinn.
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