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Notes:
1. The Jack or Knave is the common man serving as cannon fodder
for the King and Queen—both victim and perpetrator of atrocities.
2. The design is a parody of the Bicycle playing card deck; the verse
refers to the nursery rhyme, “This is the House that Jack Built”.
3. The precipice ahead of the Joker had several meanings in 2008.
