Book Future - The Powers of Fortune-Telling and Literature Come Together!

[Mathor]

I was introduced to this game a long long time ago by a couple friends of mine.

The first person starts by asking the fortune-teller (Person Below You) a question they wanted answered. The second person responds by selecting a book, any random book (novel, poetry book, dictionary, anything), and without looking, pointing to the first passage they come across without cheating (it can be a paragraph, or just a couple sentences), and posting this passage as this passage will answer the question they have asked in some cryptic sort of way. The fortune-teller or the person who asked the question can feel free to comment on the answers, or to interpret the passages and what they might mean. The person who answered a question will then ask another question to the next fortune-teller (Person Below).



I'll start.

What will my future career be?

[Lokasenna]

In my best oracle-voice:

"But I warn all you workmen - earn while you may,
For Hunger is making haste, and will soon be here.
He shall awaken with the waters, for chastening waters.
Before five years have passed, there shall be a great famine,
Through floods and foul weather the fruits of the earth shall fail."

- William Langland, Passus 6 of Piers Plowman, rendered into modern English by Terence Tiller. Hope that helps!

What are next week's lottery numbers?

[Mathor]

"How could God give up the most loved of His saints for the diversion of the devil, take from him his children, smite him with sore boils so that he cleansed the corruption of his sores with a potsherd-- and for not other object except to boast to the devil!"
-The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

What do I need to be happy in my life?

[just mercedes]

"to behold the wandering moon
riding near her highest noon,
like one that had been led astray
in the heaven's wide, pathless way"

Milton, Il Penseroso

Invoking "divinest Melancholy", the poem is in praise of the contemplative, withdrawn life

Should I stay in New Zealand and do my MA, or go live on a beach somewhere warm?

[Lokasenna]

"O child of many winds! As suddenly
Thou comest as the memory of a dream,
Which now is sad because it hath been sweet;
Like genius, or like joy which riseth up
As from the earth, clothing with golden clouds
The desert of our life."

Shelley's Prometheus Unbound

[balehead]

What's your question??