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does not wonder about the future? Some persons may have merely an idle
curiosity about what lies ahead. For others, the stakes can be exceptionally
high, calling for sophisticated forecasting methods; for example, see The
Future is Not What It Used to Be. Over the centuries many instruments
have been devised for predicting the future. Besides tea leaves and the
crystal ball, there are at least twenty others. All have names.
Select the term that fits the definition provided by each
line of the poem.
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Oh, Mancy Schmancy
by Ana Pest {Reference}
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Selections
(alphabet order)
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sage selects by spinning vertigo.
ocate those hidden notes in cakes
to go.
ronounce impending times by moonlight's
beams.
eed cheese coagulation's future
themes.
nd blindfold breathing ripples
next day's news.
ut future find in marks on worn
out shoes.
ngage a twirling hatchet that
perceives.
hen forecast from the noise of
crackling leaves.
nvest by shapes of fallen trees
aheap.
onsult the shoulder bone of goat
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ALEUROMANCY
AXINOMANCY
CATOPTROMANCY
CEPHALOMANCY
CHALCOMANCY
CROMNIOMANCY
DAPHNOMANCY
EROMANCY
GELOMANCY
GYROMANCY
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n laughing sounds reveal tomorrow's
scene.
ext navel contemplate as time
machine.
iew donkey's head aboiling roundabout.
nlist the marked up onions first
to sprout.
efer to fig-leaves soaking in
a pail.
ee sunlight's image on a fingernail.
nvoke the entrails cut from sacrifice.
r take up popping rose leaves
once or twice.
ow melted lead's the shape of
fate's control.
o too the sounds of brass or copper
bowl. |
MOLYBDOMANCY
OMPHALOMANCY
ONYCHOMANCY
PHYLLORHODOMANCY
SCAPULOMANCY
SCARPOMANCY
SPLANCHOMANCY
SYCHOMANCY
TIROMANCY
XYLOMANCY
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Reference
 utomation
has taken over many aspects of our lives. What is the future of automation?
some of us wonder. How soon will there be automatons that write poetry?
One author is exploring that subject in The Imitation Game, which
will be serialized in Sophisticated:The Magazine.
One of the contributors to that work is Ana Pest, who was called upon to
provide the definitions set forth above. {Return}
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