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Quote: “In short, my attention was always on the periphery, on what I could see and taste and touch, on the butter, and the Grey Hound Bus.”

My Question: What does it mean to have your attention on the periphery? IMO - the butter and the grey hound but is what you are doing and where you are in the present moment. To assign those things a label of

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🃏 Card 8: “The End of Pretending”

Keywords: Radical honesty, resignation, death as gravity
Fool Aspect: The full-circle return: Fool becomes Crone
Summary: In the book’s final passages, Didion no longer tries to disguise her pain. She is unadorned. The Fool now carries no hope of flight—only memory, and the strange clarity of waiting to die.
Pull

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🃏 Card 2: “The Child You Lose”

Keywords: Memory, idealization, unreliability
Fool Aspect: The illusion of innocence; the myth of preparation
Summary: Didion recalls Quintana’s early life—not as it was, but as a myth she now questions. This card explores the danger of idealizing memory, how the Fool’s faith in the past can become a trap.
Pull quote: “On

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