15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee. Holstee Manifesto Poster. A Primer On Oblique Strategizing. The Oblique Strategies are a deck of cards. Up until 1996, they were quite easy to describe. They measured about 2-3/4" x 3-3/4". They came in a small black box which said "OBLIQUE STRATEGIES" on one of the top's long sides and "BRIAN ENO/PETER SCHMIDT" on the other side.
The cards were solid black on one side, and had the aphorisms printed in a 10-point sans serif face on the other. That was then, and this is now. But I digress. It is not clear from any sources I've run across whether the cards were explicitly intended to be oracular at the outset - that is, whether or not Peter Schmidt and Eno necessarily saw them exclusively as a "single instruction/single response" kind of "game". Eno discusses the Oblique Strategies at greatest length in an interview with Charles Amirkhanian, conducted at KPFA in Berkeley in early 1980: "These cards evolved from our separate working procedures. An introduction to the Oblique Strategies can be found in the deck itself. (card two)
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