(urth) Editor in China requesting help with translation of certain sentences in BotNS

[David Stockhoff]

That works out a lot better than solitaire=elector=jack.

One of the HR electors was an actual king, so there can be several 
kings/princes; there can be only one autarch, and he is completely 
separate from the nobility. That means the elector can easily be a king.

Knights can woo queens, but pages, never.

On 12/16/2013 7:57 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Daniel Otto Jack Petersen
> <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> THE PLAY
>> confirm the outcome of a love affair by putting the elector of one suit atop
>> the patroness of another
>>
>> If the word suit refer to the some card game, then what does "elector"and
>> "patroness"mean?"
> Now, when I hear 'soothsayers' in close proximity to 'one suit', my 
> instant expectation is that we are talking about Tarot and 
> fortunetelling. Foretelling a love affair is exactly the sort of thing 
> Tarot might be used for. And this would be far from the first 
> reference to Tarot by Wolfe: I'm sure we haven't forgotten _Sorceror's 
> House_ or "The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps", and a search on 
> urth.net will turn up still others. The suits or minor arcana of the 
> Tarot include the knave, the knight, the queen, and the king. 
> 'elector' sounds like the German kings, and 'patronness' is a 
> reasonable description of a queen.