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...come to seek the seer...
...When I have gone to seers, it has been at a time when I had personal problems or was in a crisis,” Lee says. “Hopefully, the seer can be there to be a listener and to give some tips about what is happening in [visitors’] lives. It’s very much about trust or our fantasy of the unknown and how these two strangers can interact under these systems...
DIED. ROBERT BOURQUE, 82, creator of Zoltan the Astrological Wizard, a mechanical fortuneteller that dispensed predictions at beachfronts and arcades before the age of electronic games; in Duxbury, Mass. The turbaned seer was the model for Zoltar, who turned Tom Hanks from a boy into a man in the 1988 movie...
Mingwei is the first to admit that “Western academics” might be skeptical of his project. But for him, it’s the very invisibility of seers in the academic world that justifies the project to begin with. While pursuing his MFA at Yale, Mingwei was surprised to meet two professors—one of math, the other of statistics—who were also excellent tarot card readers. “They would never come out and say it,” he says, “because there’s something against...