NWT #7: When Two Tribes Go To War...

[chiscotheque]

Question: Should we always take an extreme position for the fun of battle?

Card: 4 of Air Relax Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Answer: Rather than take an extreme position for the fun of battle, we should relax, at least until we learn how to play our instruments. If we can't practice abstinence, we should take the missionary position.



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[dodalisque]

Rather than take an extreme position for the fun of battle, we should relax, at least until we learn how to play our instruments. If we can't practice abstinence, we should take the missionary position.

The card image makes me think of the "beast with two backs" from Iago's speech in Shakespeare's Othello. Perhaps "the fun of battle" is the very thing that prompts Iago to be so incomprehensibly evil. There is a lot of critical debate about why Iago is so wicked towards Othello. Perhaps that is all the motivation the character needs. Iago is trying to stir up trouble for Othello by exaggerating the animal nature of Othello's marriage to Brabantio's daughter.

Iago. 'Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not
serve God, if the devil bid you. Because we come to
do you service and you think we are ruffians, you'll
have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse;
you'll have your nephews neigh to you; you'll have
coursers for cousins and gennets for germans.

Brabantio. What profane wretch art thou?

Iago. I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter
and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.