Strategies mentioned include 'Honor thy error as a hidden intention', 'Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify', 'Not building a wall making a brick', 'Repetition is a form of change', and one which came to be seen as a summary of the film's ethos (though it was not part of the official set of Oblique Strategies), 'Withdrawing in disgust is not the same thing as apathy.' This line was quoted in the 1994 song ' by, who also mentioned Oblique Strategies in their 1998 song 'Diminished' from the album. In this case the card is trusted even if its appropriateness is quite unclear.Cultural impact References to Oblique Strategies exist in popular culture, notably in the film, in which a character offers passers-by cards from a deck. With public interest in the cards undiminished, in 2001 Eno once again produced a new set of Oblique Strategies cards. Eno's decision to revisit the cards and his collaboration with Norton in revising them is described in detail in his 1996 book.
Sixteen years later software pioneer convinced Eno to let him create a fourth edition as Christmas gifts for his friends (not for sale, although they occasionally come up at auction). The set went through three limited edition printings before Schmidt suddenly died in early 1980, after which the card decks became rather rare and expensive. There was a significant overlap between the two projects, and so, in late 1974, Schmidt and Eno combined them into a single pack of cards and offered them for general sale.
Eno, who had known Schmidt since the late 1960s, had been pursuing a similar project himself, which he had handwritten onto a number of bamboo cards and given the name 'Oblique Strategies' in 1974. Contents.Origin and history In 1970, created 'The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts', a box containing 55 sentences letterpress printed onto disused prints that accumulated in his studio, which is still in Eno's possession.
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