Word: lutin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number which doubtless contains great significance for the computer. Girls at desks punched out computer cards, and the customers waited outside as the machine recorded its insights on blue-and-white striped paper monogrammed with a starry "A." I walked up, introduced myself, and began talking to Michael Lutin, one of the astrologers who works there. He explained to me that astrology locates a person as a specific point in time and space, and then describes his "potential harmony." Lutin, like Astroflash, was very careful to emphasize that astrology is not a for tune-telling device. As Astroflash puts...
Both in their twenties, Lutin and Damaska also draw up private, individual horoscopes by hand. For this, they charge from 50 to 75 dollars. Sometimes the job takes them as long as two weeks. Astroflash performs in minutes, and the price for the combined portrait and calendar is a relatively moderate five dollars...
...human counterparts in judgment or synthesizing power. Both men are strongly committed to astrology. Damaska radiated enthusiasm from his bright blue eyes and his wiry brown hair that effervesced from his head. He wore agray-brown suit, a blue-and-green. striped-and-flowered tie, and a full beard. Lutin wore a pink shirt and a collarless blue sports jacket. An ascot was tied around his neck, and his greasy black thinning hair was stretched sparsely across his scalp, painfully trying to cover the bald spots until it could relax in a thick growth at the bottom of his neck...
...ANALYSIS had arrived, and I was eager to see it. Lutin and Damaska scanned the first page, which is technical information about houses, planets, conjunctions, and opposition. They then proceeded to take astrological pot shots at me, explaining the significance of the way I was dressed, demonstrating how it was all indicated in my conjunctions. Damaska was surprised that I am a Virgo, confessing he thought I "come on like a Sagittarius." I retreated hastily and watched from a distance to see what kinds of people pay money for this thing...
...Lutin was right. I didn't see any clergymen, but all sorts of other specimens did appear. They were attracted to this clever conglomerate of circuits and bolts. fascinated by its mystical aura and scientific precision. Damaska had said he considers palmists to be his "spiritual cousins," but these people, would never go to a palmist. Or to a private astrologer, for that matter. The first is too unconvincing, the second too expensive and exotic. For a people living in the Moon Age, the cybernetic version of the astrological moon can be just as believable as the sandy satellite visited...