Divine words
Oct. 11th, 2006 11:19 amStrange, how potent cheap music is...
My beloved Sybil offers fortune-telling by virtue of the popular song. And of course I know that there is a joyously long list of words for divination by various arcane means, most of them ending in -mancy; and of course I went to look, just in case there was as extant word I could use. Tragically there isn't, and nor can I think of an entertaining pun; but I did find this wonderful list of what there is.
I am, I suspect, an ambulomantic; certainly this seems to be how I plot my novels, I go for a walk and future events just fall into place in my head.
What I want to be, of course, is an ailuromantic. I want to sit here watching Barry go bananas with a jingly ball, and suddenly understand all things. It just seems right, y'know...?
My beloved Sybil offers fortune-telling by virtue of the popular song. And of course I know that there is a joyously long list of words for divination by various arcane means, most of them ending in -mancy; and of course I went to look, just in case there was as extant word I could use. Tragically there isn't, and nor can I think of an entertaining pun; but I did find this wonderful list of what there is.
I am, I suspect, an ambulomantic; certainly this seems to be how I plot my novels, I go for a walk and future events just fall into place in my head.
What I want to be, of course, is an ailuromantic. I want to sit here watching Barry go bananas with a jingly ball, and suddenly understand all things. It just seems right, y'know...?