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-<tr><td width="*" align="left" valign="top">'''augury''' ''n'' '''1.''' The art or practice of predicting the future; divination. '''2.''' An attempt to solidify vapor.+<tr><td width="*" align="left" valign="top">'''augury''' ''n'' '''1.''' The art or practice of predicting the future; divination. '''2.''' An attempt to solidify [[vapor]]. '''3.''' The movement of chance, particularized in advance by poets, seers or persons otherwise ''in the know.''
== Extrapolation == == Extrapolation ==
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-''Scene'': [[Lucretia Borges]] (that infamous [[clamper]] and founder of [[The 3rd A]]) and [[Alexandre Dacusse]] (looking about impatiently) -- both bellied up at local Bronx watering hole.+''Scene'': [[Lucretia Borges]] (that infamous [[clamper]] and founder of [[The 3rd A]]) and [[Alexandre Dacusse]] (looking about impatiently) -- both bellied up at local Bronx watering hole. Camera holds on the street corner, momentarily bare, a pleadingly flat shot. Eventually, a figure emerges, then two. They appear to speak.
-''Borges'': "Well, you could, to be sure, chase the whole issue back to free will and what not, but don't you think that's a rather pedestrian attempt to camouflage the obvious religious symbology behind such universal occurrences?"+(smoking a cigarette that is thin, in the european style, unlit)''Borges'': "Well, you could, to be sure, chase the whole issue back to free will and what not, but don't you think that's a rather pedestrian attempt to camouflage the obvious religious symbology behind such universal occurrences?"
-''Dacusse'': "Umm, sure. How's about another round? Can you spot me one more? Ahh, I seem to be low on cigs...."+(still attached to his dumforqu, it's mechanical carapace causing a slight discomforted, easily shrugged) ''Dacusse'': "Umm, sure. How's about another round? Can you spot me one more? Ahh, I seem to be low on cigs...."
== See Also == == See Also ==

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augury n 1. The art or practice of predicting the future; divination. 2. An attempt to solidify vapor. 3. The movement of chance, particularized in advance by poets, seers or persons otherwise in the know.

Extrapolation


Scene: Lucretia Borges (that infamous clamper and founder of The 3rd A) and Alexandre Dacusse (looking about impatiently) -- both bellied up at local Bronx watering hole. Camera holds on the street corner, momentarily bare, a pleadingly flat shot. Eventually, a figure emerges, then two. They appear to speak.

(smoking a cigarette that is thin, in the european style, unlit)Borges: "Well, you could, to be sure, chase the whole issue back to free will and what not, but don't you think that's a rather pedestrian attempt to camouflage the obvious religious symbology behind such universal occurrences?"

(still attached to his dumforqu, it's mechanical carapace causing a slight discomforted, easily shrugged) Dacusse: "Umm, sure. How's about another round? Can you spot me one more? Ahh, I seem to be low on cigs...."

See Also


Desiderata


The ancient Mayans based battle plans on the placement of seeds inside ritually sacrificed melons.

Good luck!