Divine words

[desperance]

Strange, 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...?

Comments

[davidbarnett.livejournal.com]

I had a similar thing in popCULT! in which one of the characters used television images to seek guidance. I settled on televination.

How about melodivination?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

How about melodivination?

I like that. Or melodomancy, I suppose. Except that - because I'm me, and because this is after all a book, and needs words - the truth is really in the lyrics, not the tune. Or am I just being picky now?

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

Chaz, that list is superb. I've just come home absolutely soaked by a cloudburst reminiscent of Noe's Fludde, and reading the list has cheered me up. Thank you!

[angelsasha.livejournal.com]

tiromancy - divination using cheese I'm not sure why, but that one cracks me up!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Mm-hmm - and with two different spellings, too (tyromancy being perhaps for newcomers to cheese?). But you do, don't you - you sit there thinking, how?

[angelsasha.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you use the patterns of the veins in blue cheese? That's the only thing I can think of!