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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...?

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Date: 2006-10-11 11:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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?

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Date: 2006-10-11 12:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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?

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Date: 2006-10-11 12:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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!

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Date: 2006-10-11 02:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angelsasha.livejournal.com
tiromancy - divination using cheese I'm not sure why, but that one cracks me up!

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Date: 2006-10-11 02:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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?

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Date: 2006-10-11 02:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angelsasha.livejournal.com
Perhaps you use the patterns of the veins in blue cheese? That's the only thing I can think of!

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