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Show West Edition Citizens Wednesday February 1997 Fear makesus seek advice from fortune-tellers = EEE] = NEW ORLEANS — Being a journalist, I consider myself a man of fact andscience. I place no credence in the frothy, imprecise foolishness of speculative pseudo- sciences,like astrologyor psychic readings. Smaller minds mayfall for that superficial nonsense. But 1 eschewit. (I think that’s the way Tony Kornh e1ser tion. How soon?” [ asked. “Maybe | shouldn't bother finishing this column she had no obvious boils on her nose. Whatis it with tarot read- Suddenly, Wyndee me and asked Are to go with superficial nonsense. First you chew it, then you eschew ers? Whydo so manyof them look it.) like they've just walked out of a Diane Arbusvideo? But I wasagitated bya scientific study that said — and I'm quot- “Just tell me about myfuture,” I asked Wyndee. “Will it involve ing here from a headline in USA Today — “Boorish, Bigmouth Men Die Younger.’ Whatdoesthis have to do with me, youask? What a moron youare. It has to do with mebecause even sophisticated, self-effacing men like me must occasionallyact a little assertively such as when a waiter gets my order wrong andit's necessary to express my displeasure by loudly questioning thelegiti- macyof his birth, jamming breadsticks in his mouth and pulling his pants down. Anyway, faced with my imminent demise, I did what any man of fact andscience would do — I went to a tarot reader here in the French Quarter. dee, a I picked Wyn- ‘ar-old whose mother business. You know Of the manyreasons I chose Wanaee (whose sister is named Nynteepercentchanceofrain), the most important one wasthat unlike many of her equallyqualified colleagues on Jackson Square, “Where’s he spending his next “Go fish. She tied over “Death.” 1 took this as a bad sign. She tried to reassure me. “It doesn't mean physical death. Actually, cards and said, over, I eupereares an urge to say, it can be good.” “It's just one card. If it was surroundedbyreally, really negative family id. “Change for the better. the end of one cycle and the beginning of another. cards, it could be bad,” she said “But you have good cards.” I looked at my other cards and pointed to the one with a man laying on his stomach with 10 swords in his back. ““That’s a good card?” I asked. ‘That card signifies change,” “You're an anx- ious, neurotic person.” The sim called to her mother She went on with the reading, simian crease I was aiarmed. The crease! What did it mean? simian Was it my destiny to climb the Empire State Building The simian crease oceurs when your head line and your heart line are fused together Wyndee’s mom said, pointing to a straight line across the middle of my palm. “It’s the merging of the mental and the emotional. People who have this search for ideas: they're very forceful and cre ative. What do you do for a li ing? interpreting my other cards. I had the King of Cups, who was wise I'ma sportswriter Well. that's Htalnly ore ative,” she said In short ord told me that Iwas “infle matic, impa moving forward, not standing still. And I had a Queen — the tient and self-indulgent Queen of Soul, I believe, which You got all that from my hand?” I asked. “Or were you reading USA Today and powerful and also quite emotional. 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Then I pointed to a card with three swords piercing a heart “You're going to tell me that's good, too, even though it looks like whoever gets that card ought to call Dr. DeBakey?” Wyndee stopped looking at the A reading palms! What a nice touch. She Pipers song 61 Assert without 26 Propeller of a son ian crease! hifalutin concepts, like Beauty or “Good death? Like the good chol esterol?” I asked, grasping. what they say: The family that Things were goingso well, I de palm, also. She told 1 the palm ofthe hand I did, and she gasped ofthe cards contain eerie Gothic 55 1967 Lemon 1 Manon one knee 20 Great Lake I lived cided to have Wyndee drawings of people symbolizing deck. Then she began turning “Could you No, from your accent. in Brooklyn once Oh he or she tells you what's going to happen to you in the future. Some over cards. (As she turned them I said. tell that from the car For those of you who have nev- Wyndee had me shuffle the at from ACROSS 18 Collector's Originally,” er had tarot reading, there is a deck of 78 cards, and the reader turns over 10, and from those 10, Hope or A Bridgeto the 21st Century. look you New York? Elizabeth Hurley?” works at an adjoining card table prognosticates together . um, eats frogs and grapestogether. state of flux and my career would soon be taking a different direc fool" i 41 Centralregion 2 Us: Sp. in 43 “It must be him, shall Bit die" 45 Singer Zadora 46 Belgian composer a 47 Zambia's = official lang 48 School org. 7 = i 51 1977 Super Bowl champ 54 Ch. title ; n ener getically so Answers on Page Community Calendar Continued from Page1 Continued from Page 2 — Musician Mark Krantz. 67:30 p.m. Hours: M-Th, Sat. 9:30 a.m.-5 College of Nursing. 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