This card entitles the holder to unlimited admission

is imprinted on one side in black ink, and on the reverse it reads:

Le Cirque des Reves

and in smaller letters beneath that:

Chandresh Christophe Lefevere, Proprietor

Erin Morgenstern

Tag: cards

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There might be cheats or possible cheats amongst them, men who beat their wives, men with perverse instincts, greedy men, cowardly men, lying men; but the elegance of the room invested each one with a kind of aristocracy.

Ian Fleming

Tag: elegance cards aristocracy cheaters

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Life! What Inscrutable Card Shall Ye Throw Next Upon the Soft Felt of Our Days?

Colson Whitehead

Tag: nonfiction gaming cards poker

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It's my opinion he don't want to kill you,' said Perea - 'at least not yet. I've heard deir idea is to scar and worry a man wid deir spells, and narrow misses, and rheumatic pains, and bad dreams, and all dat, until he's sick of life. Of course, it's all talk, you know. You mustn't worry about it. But I wunder what he'll be up to next.'

'I shall have to be up to something first,' said Pollock, staring gloomily at the greasy cards that Perea was putting on the table. 'It don't suit my dignity to be followed about, and shot at, and blighted in this way. I wonder if Porroh hokey-pokey upsets your luck at cards.'

He looked at Perea suspiciously.

'Very likely it does,' said Perea warmly, shuffling. 'Dey are wonderful people.'

("Pollock And The Porrah Man")

H.G. Wells

Tag: superstition cards gambling witch-doctor folk-magic

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