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To add to what Ember said, here is a thing with the Fool:
You can add the Fool to anything, and you will not change that thing a single bit. Anything + Zero = Anything.
X + 0 = X.
Knowledge of the Fool is not going to affect that which obtains the Knowledge...
But if you join with the Fool, if you marry the Fool, if the Fool becomes your Self, your Experience, your Love, then you completely vanish, and only the Fool remains. Anything x Zero = Zero.
X x 0 = 0.
Zero plus anything equals anything. Zero times anything equals zero. Zero then has a split personality. If zero is added to something, that something remains completely unchanged. In that respect, zero is the least obtrusive of all numbers. It is completely invisible and has no effect whatsoever in the domain of addition. If, however, you are going to multiply a number by zero, then the result is zero.
Addition and multiplication, potentially, also symbolize things. Put into human terms, I think you could say that addition is friendship. You and I can stand shoulder to shoulder, become added together and thus form a bond. Neither of us loses our identity. But, if we become married, at least in theory, we are no longer two people, but a new, single unit. Our individual lives have become merged into the greater union. When we simply add the Fool to our lives, our lives remain exactly as they were. If we attempt to retain any part of ourselves, then we will remain completely unaffected by the Fool, whatever it turns out to be. If we marry ourselves to the Fool, then we will discover that we no longer exist, and the only reality is the Fool. |
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