[the_disordered_one]

"Insults wound me so deeply they disarm me, they force me to the ground, and I am sure that they will one day destroy me...If not, everything I've read and seen myself has deceived me, then a great part of what is taken for madness is really hyper-sensitiveness. It has often been maliciously hinted and even openly declared that I am a fool. Maybe I am, but I doubt it....A real madman is, as a rule, the only person who doesn't recognise his madness...If I were a poet, I might be able to reap praise by putting these things to verse. But the talent of expression was not given to me, and so I must bear being laughed at, scorned at, and slandered. I am called a fool."

[nowheretorun]

Symbolism

The Fool is the spirit in search of experience. He represents the mystical cleverness bereft of reason within us, the childlike ability to tune into the inner workings of the world. The sun shining behind him represents the divine nature of the Fool's wisdom. On his back are all the possessions he might need. In his hand there is a flower, showing his appreciation of beauty. He is frequently accompanied by a dog, sometimes seen as his animal desires, sometimes as the call of the "real world", nipping at his heels and distracting him. He is seemingly unconcerned that he is about to walk off the edge of a cliff, engaged in the supremest act of idiocy or trust.

The number 0 is a perfect significator for the Fool, which can become anything when he reaches his destination. Zero plus anything equals the same thing. Zero times anything equals zero.[1]



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fool_(Tarot_card)