From a pack of playing cards, imported from an unspecified country...
The Big Wizard and Little Wizard are the jokers, by the way. And I should add that the jokers are just regular, traditional jester figures, not depicted as wizards.
So, poker: the simplest but most complicated game in the cultural history of the human being. Who knew?
Still, the happiness in every day is a nice sentiment...
These fanciful interpretations and translations are delightful. There was me thinking Poker is just "any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand" but now it's a life-affirming philosophy!
ReplyDeleteI guess we have to take our philosophies where we can find them!
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