Ce truc de ramener les cartes à des symboles (années, saisons, etc.) me fera toujours penser à ça: http://www.thejerx.com/blog/2016/7/12/diary-cha-cha-cha
Extrait:
Here's me as a smart, but dumb, 13-year-old, not knowing how to be a magic spectator when a guy was showing me a trick at one of the only magic conventions I've ever gone to.
Him: Do you know how a deck of cards is like a calendar?
Me: Uhm... they're both made of paper?
Him: A deck of cards—
Me: They have numbers?
Him: A deck of cards has two colors—
Me: My grandma has an old one that she should replace?
Him: Huh? No. Listen. This is the patter.
Me: Oh! I thought it was a riddle or something.
Him: A deck of cards has two colors. Red and black, representing day and night.
Me: A calendar doesn't track day and night.
Him: And it has four suits, like the four seasons.
Me: Okay.
Him: And it has 52 cards, like the 52 weeks of the year.
Me: Huh... interesting.
Him: And it has 13 values per suit, like the 13 lunar cycles.
Me: Lunar cycles!
Him: And—
Me: That's a stretch.
Him: But the most—
Me: Like... sure... what's a more common way to think of the way a calendar is broken up than lunar cycles. C'mon man.
Him: Stop. Hold on. But the most interesting thing is if you add up all the values, you get 364. And if you add the joker you get 365, the number of days in a year.
Me: Aren't there two jokers?
Him: Well, yeah. But we add one to get 365.
Me: Oh...It seems like it didn't work out there at the end really. And if we add a joker, aren't we now talking 53 cards which spoils the number of weeks in a year thing?