Friday 28 March 2014

Freudian Oneiromancy


In 1877 Grapella’s great-grandfather unearthed  a bronze sculpture of a liver dating from 100 BC, near the town of Piacenza in northern Italy. The Etruscans were well known for the practice of divining by the entrails of sheep and this sculpture was thought to be an artefact of Roman haruspicy. Even today amongst Grepella’s extended family there is a fortune-telling Falgir called Sapsule Colswain. She is now talking to Frab Lotus, and trying to convince him that Freud was merely a latter-day Oneiromancer, and that better results can be obtained from Extispicy. To demonstrate her point she has purchased a sheep and is now examining its entrails (Hepatoscopy). Frab nods politely, and wonders how he can get rid of her.

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