(INNOCENCE{:[xS]} [continued])[4th April 1987]

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'Innocence' is a strange concept: if I remember rightly, the Latin root would be 'Nocens'(?), harmful, and a negative prefix: i.e. unharmful, harmless. But as we judge everything now by its ability to harm us, to be 'harmless' is regarded as rather a denigration; Innocence is much more than that.

Neil Gunn's Green Isle of the Great Deep* had a fascinating girl, Sweet Innocence, who in life had been a terrorist and shot dead a number of people: the last encountered had shot faster than her, and she wanted to meet him.** Although it is hard to imagine xS ('Sweet [xS]' as +Mk teases her***) killing, her Outer Circle Tarot is XIII, Death, and Death is another name for ****Simplification.

From one point of view, xS is perhaps the most dangerous Archetype of the Circles, which may be why many hurry past her with eyes averted, and go round again.

*[The Celtic Otherworld/Afterworld; from 'The Green Isle of the Great Deep', 1944.]

**There is a horrifying description in today's [Daily] Telegraph, 2^nd part, front page, article on Peru(?), of a 'Shining Path' terrorist atrocity led by a teenage girl. <890930>

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****or an aspect of? /extreme version of? <890930>

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