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A work dedicated to acceptance, inner harmony or the ability to transcend conventions and observe the world from a more spiritual point of view. In cartomancy, the image of the young Hanged man is traditionally depicted in ecstasy rather than in pain or humiliation.
The hanging (or madman) is also the one that closes the story of Orlando mad for love in Italo Calvino's book The Castle of crossed destinies. Orlando, the crazed paladin already represented by the Fool, is tied upside down and, having recovered his wits, says: «Leave me like this. I went all the way around and got it. The world reads backwards. Everything is clear".