From: jhbrown@ai.mit.edu (Jeremy H. Brown)
To: all-ai@ai.mit.edu
Subject: GSB: Tonight! 5:30pm, 7AI playroom
Date: 29 Sep 2000 15:57:10 -0400

In the search for eternal wisdom, the graduate student approached the Tarot Deck, which is to say he pointed his browser at www.tarot.com. With a minimum of clicks, he prepared to lay out a 3-card spread with the Visconti-Sforza deck.

Fingers trembling, he typed three letters into the "Subject of interest" form; the letters were G, S, and B.

Eyes squinting as if to hold back the inevitable truth about to be revealed, he rapidly clicked on an imagemap of a deck to select his three cards.

Prying open his eyes, he was not particularly surprised to discover "The Devil" in the Self position. The accompanying interpretation read, in part:

The Devil card symbolizes letting those parts of yourself that have been repressed or shamed out of the closet... this card is reminding you to face your shadow stuff... We are conditioned to mistrust passionate desires and basic instincts, because we are afraid that we might go too far, slipping into hedonism or addiction... we need to outgrow fearful inhibitions placed upon our personalities and self-expression.

In every generation there have been those who push these limits. They may have been demonized in their time, but later generations understood the honesty, courage and healing power of their daring.

The graduate student nodded slowly. Yes, this was right. This was good. This was an unmistakable message. The honesty, the courage, and the healing power of GSB must once again be brought to the AI lab! The shadow stuff, the passionate desires, the basic instincts, the flickering fluorescent lights, and the frigid playroom must all be indulged, must all be let out of the closet!

Ignoring the other two Tarot cards because they didn't make any sense, the grad student bent once again over his keyboard and began typing an urgent message to his laboratory brethren, and it read:

"In the search for eternal wisdom, the graduate student approached the Tarot Deck, which is to say he pointed his browser at www.tarot.com..."

****************** G I R L S C O U T B E N E F I T ****************** ****************** 5:30pm 7AI Playroom ******************