AtD pg237 Spoiler alert

[Joe Allonby]

After a riff on exploding cricket balls with a nod to SF parodist Douglas
Adams we get:


This person greeted the Cohen by raising his left hand, then spreading the
fingers two and two away from the thumb so as to form the Hebrew letter
shin, signifying the initial letter of one of the pre-Mosaic (that is
plural) names of God, which may never be spoken.
"Basically wishing long life and prosperity," explained the Cohen, answering
with the same gesture.

I think I can dig up a copy of "I Am Spock" by Leonard Nimoy, there's one
here in this mess somewhere. I seem to recall in his autobio that he
suggested the sign for "Live Long and Prosper" from the form of the Hebrew
letter.
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