“I saw a torso falling--no legs--no head--just a torso. I am redundant because I can’t believe what I saw. I saw a torso falling--no legs--no head--just a torso--tumbling in the air--dressed in a bright white shirt--the shirt of the businessman--tucked in--neatly--under the belt--snugly fastened--holding up his pants that had no legs. He had hit a steel girder--and he was dead--dead for a ducat, dead--on the floor of Krispy Krème--with powdered donuts for a head--fresh out of the oven--crispy and round--hot and tasty--and this businessman--on the ground was clutching a briefcase in his hand--and on his finger, the wedding band. I suppose he thought his briefcase was his life--or his wife--or that both were one--because the briefcase was as tight in hand as the wedding band.”

Card XII : The Hanged Man http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/sot/sot23.htm <br class="br">The Symbolism of the Tarot (1913) <br class="br">Context: And then I saw a man in terrible suffering, hung by one leg, head downward, to a high tree. And I heard the voice: —<br>&quot;Look! This is a man who saw Truth. Suffering awaits the man on earth, who finds the way to eternity and to the understanding of the Endless.<br>&quot;He is still a man, but he already knows much of what is inaccessible even to Gods. And the incommensurableness of the small and the great in his soul constitutes his pain and his golgotha.<br>&quot;In his own soul appears the gallows on which he hangs in suffering, feeling that he is indeed inverted.<br>&quot;He chose this way himself.<br>&quot;For this he went over a long road from trial to trial, from initiation to initiation, through failures and falls.<br>&quot;And now he has found Truth and knows himself.<br>&quot;He knows that it is he who stands before an altar with magic symbols, and reaches from earth to heaven; that he also walks on a dusty road under a scorching sun to a precipice where a crocodile awaits him; that he dwells with his mate in paradise under the shadow of a blessing genius; that he is chained to a black cube under the shadow of deceit; that he stands as a victor for a moment in an illusionary chariot drawn by sphinxes; and that with a lantern in bright sunshine, he seeks for Truth in a desert.<br>&quot;Now he has found Her.&quot;