Since we’re on the subject of creative impulses gone haywire, I thought this would be a nice short follow-up from the “real” world:

Before cops threw the book at him, Jakub Fik threw something unusual at them — his penis.

Fik, 33, cut off his own penis during a Northwest Side rampage Wednesday morning. When confronted by police, Fik hurled several knives and his severed organ at the officers, police said. Officers stunned him with a Taser and took him into custody.

[…] He told paramedics he was distraught over problems with his girlfriend in Poland, Dolan said.

Police arrived on Fik’s block at 8:20 a.m. Wednesday after receiving reports he was smashing car windows, Dolan said. Fik then broke into a house down the block. A group of six or seven officers assembled in front of the house, Dolan said.

The occupants were not home, he added.

Fik was bleeding when the officers arrived and may have already cut off his organ, Dolan said.

“At that point, this guy came running out, naked, with a handful of knives . . . and started throwing knives at the police officers that were 10, 20, 30 feet away,” Dolan said.

Fik threw his penis during the confrontation, too, Dolan said. He then went back into the house and re-emerged with “another handful of knives,” Dolan said.

Aside from the obvious comedy/gross-out factor, I’m compelled to read this from the archetypes of the tarot, since so many symbols are present in it. The penis itself is the wand, obviously. Which he used the swords (knives) of reason, the intellect to dismantle, after having lost the grounding and emotional influences of his girlfriend, cups. Not sure how the police fit into that drama - maybe as some kind of pentacles reference - reality, boundaries, confinement, coming back down to “earth”.