Word: melampus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only to look at those hands: enormously large and elongated, and so full of flexion folds as to be a palmist's nirvana. Tricassus Mantuanus, Melampus of Alexandria, John de Indagine - those late-medieval heavies of palmistry would have gone bananas over Satch Sanders' hands....The vertical line from the wrist to the base of the middle finger is the line of fortune, and to an expert chiromancer like Tricassus, that line would probably say it all....Harlem to Harvard...
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