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>look up meanings of tarot cards
>assemble them into a shitty story
>reverse engineer a prose story about how much life sucks
>give your protagonist a simple name like "tony" or "sal"
>name everyone else after greek and roman gods
>start chopping out key turning points in the plot to disorient
>reorganize the remaning chunks in arbitrary order
>make sure it starts the same way it ends
>indent everything and cut lines to a similar length
>publish as an epic of modernist free verse poetry

>> No.7133642

Is that what TS Eliot did?

>> No.7133666

>>7133548
Alternatively, you could familiarize yourself with them as an interesting set of psychological types classified hundreds of years before Freud, which is why most people find them interesting.