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Oh,
Mancy Schmancy
by Ana Pest
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Solutions
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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
or sheep. |
RYG
RUELA
RTPOTAC
RIT
RE
PRACS
NIXA
NHPAD
LYX
LUPACS
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GYROMANCY
ALEUROMANCY
CATOPTROMANCY
TIROMANCY
EROMANCY
SCARPOMANCY
AXINOMANCY
DAPHNOMANCY
XYLOMANCY
SCAPULOMANCY
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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. |
LEG
LAHPMO
LAHPEC
INMORC
HCYS
HCYNO
HCNALPS
HROLLYHP
DBYLOM
CLAHC
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GELOMANCY
OMPHALOMANCY
CEPHALOMANCY
CROMNIOMANCY
SYCHOMANCY
ONYCHOMANCY
SPLANCHOMANCY
PHYLLORHODOMANCY
MOLYBDOMANCY
CHALCOMANCY
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Keys
 ophisticated
solution-seekers
observed the clue comprising twenty initials in Ana
Pest's
ten defining couplets ()
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and something else: The word 'inversions' is .
Thus, the letters in each selection must be reversed
and the associated
terms placed in reverse alphabetic order.
For ordering purposes, of course, it is
permissible to
truncate the common suffix -OMANCY, which is merely a
combining form derived
from 'omen' [n. Latin omin-, omen (1582): an
occurrence or phenomenon
believed to portend a future event: augury]. {Return}
References
Any dictionary thicker than a couple of
inches, and...
-
The Complete Illustrated Book of
Divination and Prophesy
by Walter Gibson, 1973, Doubleday &
Company, Inc.
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