Symbolic Forest

Well, part of last Wednesday’s post quickly came true: my “almost certainly wrong” prediction of the future did, indeed, turn out to be wrong. I was sorely tempted to claim I’d been right all along, or that I’ve got enough right that I can be considered reasonably infallible; but, nah, I got it wrong. As I did say I would. Hence, I was right. Hurrah! I should go into business as a futurologist; I’m good at it. And I’ve known people make bigger futurology U-turns.

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Keyword noise: clairvoyance, elections, General Election, prediction, prophecy.

Sometimes, there are little things that bug me. Like: remembering the vague outline of the plot of a book I read 20 years ago, but not being able to remember enough to track it down. Or remembering something I saw on TV,^* or read in a library book at some point in the distant past.

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Keyword noise: clairvoyance, Jenny Randles, Hull, nuclear war, prediction, prophecy, Yorkshire.

Flicking through my viewing figures and my search keywords, I spotted one that caught my eye:

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Keyword noise: assassination, books, clairvoyance, criticism, George W Bush, Mario Reading, Nostradamus, Peter Lemesurier, prediction, prophecy.

Incidentally, those of you who read Friday’s post about Nostradamus interpreter Mario Reading will likely assume that I am a complete non-believer when it comes to prediction, clairvoyance and seeing the future. Well, that isn’t quite true.

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Keyword noise: clairvoyance, Mario Reading, Nostradamus, prediction, prophecy.