Oracles
Do you believe in fortune tellers?
What if at birth, your fortune was copied down from the great Chinese almanac of birth days and everything about everything in life (called "Tong shu" apparently), and it told a tale of great suffering, hardship, failure, and loneliness for the rest of your life, world without end, amen. Or at least, that's what you've been told all your life, because it was always kept from you and you had never read it, but its shadow had always haunted your life. And what if, it would be revealed to you one day—would you read it? Given that it has grown in mythical proportions towards something akin to the oracle of Apollo.
Admittedly, having spelled it out baldly in words, the ghosts seem like weak imaginings at best.
What if at birth, your fortune was copied down from the great Chinese almanac of birth days and everything about everything in life (called "Tong shu" apparently), and it told a tale of great suffering, hardship, failure, and loneliness for the rest of your life, world without end, amen. Or at least, that's what you've been told all your life, because it was always kept from you and you had never read it, but its shadow had always haunted your life. And what if, it would be revealed to you one day—would you read it? Given that it has grown in mythical proportions towards something akin to the oracle of Apollo.
Admittedly, having spelled it out baldly in words, the ghosts seem like weak imaginings at best.
2 Comments:
Well according to the oracles, my sister is supposed to be a bad woman. Haven't seen it come true yet =)
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meeloop, at 1:51 AM
i am caught between superstition and science. past and future. and you know it's never easy to be rationale when it's too close to home. :)
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e*, at 1:36 AM
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