Word: palmistes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Formed in the Womb. The patterns of fingerprints and the fine lines on the palm are established by the fourth month of life in the womb. The more conspicuous "flexion creases" (the palmist's "heart, head and life lines") are formed a month or two earlier. In normal palms, the heart and head lines are separate and distinct, and neither extends clear across the palm. In many victims of mongolism and of prenatal rubella, however, they are replaced by a single "simian crease," like that on a monkey's palm. At the Children's Medical Research Foundation...
...Cover: Oil painting by Birney Lettick. The constellation shining in the night sky is Aquarius. Drawn in the sand is the I Ching symbol for "Inner Truth." The crystal ball is a standard prop for clairvoyants; the Tarot cards are those for the devil and the sun. The palmist's hand shows the zodiacal signs...
Call me Manus. It's simpler that way. And allow me to introuce myself further: I am a palmist, a fortune-teller, a trained, traveled reader of the past, present, and future. I also study at Harvard, but that is only a side-line, for my real interest in life is meeting people in restaurants, coffee-shops, and other places around Cambridge to let them in on a little of what I have learned as a fortune-teller...
...Vogue on the stern of the boat. She learned of my skills, and before long I found myself holding both her hands in mine with her hair blowing in my face, and how else, may I ask you, would I even have met her, had I not been a palmist...