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Are you going to include Chiromancy? Also known as palmistry, this is now more accurately described as Hand Analysis, which is, ironically, actually NOT a predictive art. I'm a book editor who recently edited a ms. on the subject, and I learned to read hands in order to edit the book! It actually tells the subject about his or her psychological/emotional makeup. And it is remarkably accurate--take it from a former skeptic. A lifelong compulsive reader, I've read the back of cereal boxes, milk cartons, the headlines of the tabloids along the checkout line, and now hands. (The book comes out in October of 2007.)
Laura Kennedy
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And it is remarkably accurate--take it from a former skeptic.
Ever subject it to a good double blind test? There's $1,000,000 in it for you if you can pass.
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Haruspicy, Necromancy ... I first encountered these words
in The National Lampoon. In their first three years, when the
Harvard influence was still strong, their regular Horoscope
column featured a different form of Divination each month.
So for Haruspex, there would be a description
(stinking pile of sheep guts)
and some vaguely worded prediction aimed at the
satiric target of the day
(usually Spiro Agnew or Henry Kissinger).
Divination by birds, cloud-shapes, I Ching:
The Lampoon provided the foundation of my magical education,
unsurpassed until we all took Sibyl Trelawney's class.
Tim Szeliga
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I am pedantically obligated to state that
there is no apostrophe in Finnegans Wake, by
Jame's Joyce, author of Dubliner's and Ulysse's.
---Tim Szeliga
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