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Mac, A T-Shirt, and the 1994 Unseelie Incursion
Kindler:
What about the spades?
Playing cards have a seriously long and weird history. I don't know much about the symbols behind the modern ones. I know the King of Spades is supposed to be King David. Something about spades representing the warrior class sounds familiar, but I can't be sure. Hearts were the Holy Grail, if I remember correctly. Anyone think it might be significant, or am I reaching?
raidem:
The spade represents a leaf of the "cosmic" tree, and thus life. Along with its companion suit, clubs, spades represent fall and winter and the power of darkness. In the Tarot, they symbolize intellect, action, air, and death.
The symbols on the T-shirt were all Spades.
...These are the Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs and Spades of the English and French Packs. Cœurs, or Hearts represented the Church, the Holy men or virtue; Carreaux, or Diamonds were arrowheads, symbolic of the vassals from whom the archers and bowmen were drawn; Trefles or Clubs, deriving from clover, represented the shepherds or husbandman; and Piques, the points of lances – Spades, the knights themselves.
wardenferry419:
Was the feeling that Harry had the first time he entered Mac's bar similar to the first time he stepped on DR?
Kindler:
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on December 13, 2017, 10:31:35 AM ---Was the feeling that Harry had the first time he entered Mac's bar similar to the first time he stepped on DR?
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That's not shown, as far as I know. Mac's first appearance is in Storm Front, and Harry describes the bar the same way he always does (to the point that I skip the descriptions now). Harry was already a customer, so that wasn't the first time he was there. I don't think we see that.
Do the comics have Harry showing up there for the first time?
Rasins:
Per Harry in SF, Mac's pub opened a few years before Harry got to Chicago.
According to the timeline ....
--- Quote ---5 BSF: At age 20, Harry arrives in Chicago. Before he goes to work at Ragged Angel, he takes a number of jobs, one of which was as a dance partner with a senior-citizen organization.
~5 BSF: Alicia Carpenter is born
4-6 BSF: The most recent version of the Unseelie Accords is signed 10-12 years before Proven Guilty [PG 127]. Thanks to Tepick! I wonder if this coincides with the Unseelie Incursion of 1994?
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So, it's kind of hard to nail down Mac's opening.
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