A word I have always loved since I first stumbled across it at twelve years old; meaning ‘the interpretation of omens or signs’, a word that lives in parallel to another favorite of mine: ‘auspices’ meaning the ‘interpretations made from the flight of birds’. The way we are always, no matter our outer professions of logical thought, looking for intimate…
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