A friend points out that ...

[Otto Sell]

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Monroe <monroe at mpm.edu>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 11:49 PM
Subject: A friend points out that ...


> ... in 1555, Nostradamus wrote:
>
> "Come the millennium, month 12, in the home of greatest power,
> the village idiot will come forth to be acclaimed the leader."
>
> Tht's it, I'm really worried now ...
>

Don't worry, too much honor for George W. Bush, Dave . . . but since no one
knows exactly if 2000 or 2001 is the millennium, and he has been elected in
2000 and will be inaugurated in 2001 I'm not much too sure about my
consoling words myself . . .

That guy Nostradamus shall have made predictions which are more accurate
than today's weather forecast - seems unbelievable to me. But he predicted
the death of Henry II. of France in a tournament 1559.
What does he tell will happen soon?
America will split up in several provinces ruled by feudalistic rulers or
the Antichrist (the Beast with seven horns) rising?
Maybe he was speaking about the next Israeli Prime Minister!

Toni Morrison predicted civil war for the time after Clinton in an interview
before Bill was re-elected.

I'm trying it myself now, readin' outta cuppa tea, 'cause I found this:

Barbara Haislip Lynch: "Stars, Spells, Secrets and Sorcery. A Do-It-Yourself
Book of the Occult," Little, Brown and Company, Boston and Toronto 1976.
(Barbara Haislip, "Die praktische Kunst des Wahrsagens. 20 bewährte Methoden
der Zukunftsdeutung," Hermann Bauer Verlag, Freiburg 1977, Fischer Tb.,
Frankfurt a.M., Juli 1979)

--incredible book, on just some 300 pages it covers everything. Once you've
started you cannot stop laughing.

Otto