The REALL News - January 1998

<body> <div id="main-title"><img src="/images/main-title.gif" width="329" height="81" alt=""></div> <div id="global-navbar"> <ul> <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/about/">About Us</a></li> <li><a href="/newsletter/">Newsletter</a></li> <li><a href="/letters/">Letters</a></li> <li><a href="/calendar.html">Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="/links.html">Links</a></li> <li><a href="/search.html">Search</a></li> <li><a href="/email.html">E-Mail</a></li> </ul> </div>  <p align="center"><i>(<a href="./">Toggle Frames</a>)</i></p> <h1 align="center"><img src="/images/anthony/std_news.gif" alt="*" align="middle" WIDTH="64" HEIGHT="54">The REALL News<img src="/images/anthony/std_news.gif" alt="*" align="middle" WIDTH="64" HEIGHT="54"></h1> <i> <p align="center">"It's a very dangerous thing to believe in nonsense." -- James Randi</i></p> <hr> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="50%"><b>Volume 6 Issue 1</b></td> <td align="right" width="50%"><b>January 1998</b></td> </tr> </table> <hr> <div align="center"><center> <table border="0" width="80%"> <tr> <th align="left">Features</th> <th align="left">Departments</th> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="50%"><ul> <li><a href="confessions-of-a-tarot-card-reader.html">Confessions of a Tarot Card Reader</a> - a book excerpt by Lindsay E. Smith and Bruce Walstad</li> <li><a href="reallity-check.html">REALLity Check</a> - David Bloomberg</li> </ul> </td> <td valign="top" width="50%"><ul> <li><a href="chairman.html">From the Chairman</a> - David Bloomberg</li> <li><a href="editor.html">From the Editor</a> - Bob Ladendorf</li> <li><a href="masthead.html">Masthead</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <p> </p> <div align="center"><center> <table border="1" width="80%"> <tr> <td width="100%"><h2>Confessions of a Tarot Card Reader</h2> <p align="center"><b>A book excerpt by Lindsay E. Smith and Bruce Walstad</b></p> <p>Thomas Dobrowolski is low-key, well-dressed and conservative. He works in one of Chicagos largest banks. Hes definitely not the kind of guy youd expect a woman would chase into a parking lot, begging him to tell the fortune of her pregnant daughter. Yet thats exactly what happened following one session of reading Tarot cards at a neighborhood fair. We interviewed Dobrowolski during a magicians convention in Madison, Wisc., in October 1987.</p> <b><p>Q. How did you first get involved in this, Tom?</b></p> <p>A. I got a call from an agent asking if I could do Tarot card reading and fortune telling. I said I could, but at that time, I had no experience at all. So when I booked the show, I went to a local magic shop and bought a deck of Tarot cards and a book. This was about a week before the show. I studied for maybe a night, and made notes on how to read the cards on a piece of paper. <a href="confessions-of-a-tarot-card-reader.html"><img align="top" alt="More" border="0" hspace="1" src="/images/anthony/hpoint_right.gif" WIDTH="33" HEIGHT="14">More</a></td> </tr> </table> </center></div>   </body>