Measurements from Mao Amore by Mao Amore

Sometime in recent decades the card game known as Mao began being played at Oxford University (or was it Cambridge). There are rules to the game but nobody knows them all, and nobody will explain the rules which they have personally used that seem to have merit. The rules that seem to work for them are like a trust fund that they can call upon when they are in precarious or threatening conditions.

The rules are always subject to change. There are conditional branches, secret signals and words that may or may not indicate something significant, and ganging up in secret to get rid of a particular player. The only way to learn the rules is to play the game. And nobody lasts more than 5 or 10 minutes when they start. It is quite possible that there is only one game of Mao being played, and it is being played in multiple places and at any time of the day or night simultaneously with a constantly changing pool or participants.

Where is Nobodaddy when you need him?

I have little doubt that if you need a favor from a future Prime Minister, being a Mao enthusiast can get you through the front 2 secretaries and ministers.

I heartily recommend purchasing this recording of our trio Mao Amore. The music rules and conventions in our trio are similar to the way rules are traded, learned and then abandoned in Mao.

And one more thing - there is an unspoken goal in Mao Amore of getting caught in places of confusing ugliness and rising together to newly created places of beauty.

Don't hesitate. Buy it.

Mao. Cards are dealt at Oxford. Nobody will tell you how to play.

Purchase this CD of songs by our trio Mao Amore. It could well help your game. Solid information is built upon shifting sands.

All the music is improvised. We want to come to London to play Company Week. Invite us.