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"Besides," she was saying, "h a very sexy time"

"Your horoscope"

"Uh-huh"

"What do you do, read it everyI never look, but I wouldn’t rely on a newspaper horoscope for advice and counsel any more than I’d need Ann Landers to tell me if I have to pet to be popular"

"On that subject," he said, "I’d say you don’t absolutely have to, but what could it hurt?"

"And who knows," she said, reaching out for hiht even enjoy it"

A while later she said, "Newspaper astrology columns are fun, like Peanuts and Doonesbury, but they’re not very accurate But I got o in once a year for a tune-up So I have an idea what to expect over the co twelve months"

"You believe in all that?"

"Astrology? Well, it’s like gravity, isn’t it?"

"It keeps things fro off in space?"

"It works whether I believe in it or not," she said "So I "

"Like Santa Claus?"

"And the Tooth Fairy No, all the occult stuff, like tarot and nuy and-"

"What’s that?"

"Head buot soot head bumps?"

"Uh-huh, but don’t ask ist"

"Would you?"

"Go to one? Sure, if soood one In all of these areas, some practitioners are better than others There are the storefront gypsies who are really just running a scaot different levels of proficiency Some people have a knack and some just hack away at it But that’s true in every line of work, isn’t it?"

It was certainly true in his

"What I don’t get," he said, "is how any of it works What difference does it ot to do with anything?"

"I don’t kno anything works," she said, "or why it should Why does the light go on when I throw the switch? Why do I get hen you touch me? It’s all a mystery"

"But head bumps, for Christ’s sake Tarot cards"

"Sometimes it’s just a way for a person to access her intuition," she said "I used to knooman who could read shoes"

"The labels? I don’t follow you"

"She’d look at a pair of shoes that you’d owned for a while, and she could tell you things about yourself"

" ‘You need half-soles’ "

"No, like you eat too much starchy food, and you need to express the feminine side of your personality, and the relationship you’re in is stifling your creativity Things like that"

"All by looking at your shoes And that makes sense to you?"

"Does sensebrown rice?"

"No, that’s whole foods Holisrams, the principle’s that any cell in the body represents the entire life in microcoso away"

"You can?"

"Well, not ist could That’s why a palmist can look at your hand and see evidence of physical conditions that have nothing to do with your hands They show up there, and in the irises of your eyes, and the bumps on your head"

"And the heels of your shoes," Keller said "I had o I was at this party, and they had a palood one, if she was hiring out for parties How good a reading did she give you?"