Saturday, September 5, 2009

Diviner

Someone who foretells the future. A soothsayer.

"Waiting with them were some pilgrims bound for the Great Shrine at Ise, a hardware merchant from Osaka, a dealer in lacquer from Nara, a Buddhist priest from the monastery at Daigo, a tea-set seller from Takayama, a mosquito-net peddler from Tamba, a clothing merchant from Kyoto, and a diviner from the shrine at Kashima. What makes travel on a ferry so interesting is the fact that all the passengers come from different places.” Ihara Saikaku, Five Women Who Loved Love (1686).

Scale of 1 to 10: 5. People tend to hang on your every word. You can’t help but become aware of your own fraudulence.

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