DUNE TAROT?
THOTH MOON
After reading about the Dune Tarot in the second (Messiah) book I am
wondering if some entrepeneurial artistic soul has put together a deck of
cards for sale. If anyone knows of any sources please email me.
Heather
I haven't seen a deck for sale, but the Dune Encyclopedia details the tarot
deck in some detail with a few pictures.
THOTH MOON <thot...@aol.com> wrote in article
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Hitch
Hi, Gang!
Dr. McNelly has requested that I post the following to this ng, in response
to Heather's, and others' questions:
Regards,
Hitch
Dr. McNelly's portion begins HERE:
THE DUNE TAROT
The Dune Tarot is still one more example of a failed opportunity on the
part of the publishers of The Dune Encyclopedia. It also presents a
textbook case of the difficulties in working with complicated copyright
problems.
Shortly after I began working on the DE, I asked my colleague, Prof. Grace
Eckley, then of Drake University, if she would be interested in writing the
essay on the Dune Tarot. I knew of her interests in Joyce, Science Fiction,
the novels of Brian Aldiss, and also of her work in occultism in studying
Yeats and the Order of the Golden Dawn. She eagerly took on the problem of
translating Herbert's hints, suggestions, and allusions about the Dune
Tarot and translating Herbert's slim references in Dune Messiah in
particular into a "scholarly" essay for the DE.
When she mailed it to me, I immediately sent a copy to my friend, North
Carolina State English professor, Dr. Walter E. Meyers -- the "WEM" of the
DE, who wrote so many of the marvelous essays in the book. He enjoyed it as
much as I, and volunteered to do the drawings of the various cards in the
Major Arcana - the drawings that actually appear in the DE (pages 189-194,
incl.).
I immediately urged the publisher to license some card company to issue a
Dune Tarot volume shortly after the book itself was published. I received
no response to that or to subsequent letters. So, one does not exist.
But who "owns" the copyright? I do, in one limited sense. The DE was,
after all, copyrighted in my name. However, also involved, as my recent
posting has indicated, are Berkley and the Herbert estate. And while I do
not legally have any obligation to either Prof. Eckley or Prof. Meyers, --
they were paid for their essays as a "work made for hire," -- ethically I
could not agree to any issuance of a Dune Tarot unless they also agreed and
were also compensated.
I must also note that the mere fact that a Dune Tarot deck has not been
printed does not authorize ANYONE to post it on the Web. Copyright, I must
repeat, is a property right, and cannot be used without my permission, to
say nothing about that of the publisher or the Herbert estate.
Sorry, people.
END OF DR. MCNELLY'S POST.
Hope that answers some questions! - Hitch
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