Word: nostradamus
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...already inscribed in my soul. For me (and for many others, I'm sure) Menu Man isn't just another Harvard Dining Service extravagance; despite his sultry voice, he's infinitely more than a culinary cutie. His powers of foresight would amaze and astound Nostradamus himself. But to me, Menu Man is no less than an unfailing source of solace, truth and support. During yet another all-night-long Expossession, I can call Menu Man at 4:30 a.m. and never fear waking and annoying him. He'll speak to me with love, truth and most of all, constancy...
...Vatican with a bishop from Senegal. "In Africa," the bishop said, "people are talking a lot about your succession. After you, they say there will be a black Pope." John Paul said, "You seem very well informed." To which the bishop replied, "Yes, I read it in Nostradamus!" The Pope laughed...
...more savage. In a dark, scabrous alley he has shoved a woman against a wall and is raping her. For the next two hours, he stumbles through a London nighttown of despairing, inarticulate souls, watching with embittered eyes and delivering mordant, nonstop opinions on everything from Homer to Nostradamus to the Berlin Wall. When last seen, he has been severely beaten and is limping down the middle of a suburban street in an eerie dance to nowhere. As he says, there are plenty of places to go, the problem is where to stay. In the moral and spiritual sense, Johnny...
...FUTURE, a destination so close that it is arriving every second, is somehow always too distant to be clearly seen. That has not stopped generations of would-be forecasters, from Nostradamus to Alvin Toffler, from squinting in that direction. But prognosticating has always been a difficult, if not perilous, undertaking. No less a person than Henry Adams, one of America's most perceptive thinkers and historians, declared in 1903: "My figures coincide in setting 1950 as the year that the world must go smash." Close, but no prize...
...prophets of doom from the previous fin de siecle would also find much to welcome. Murky but menacing predictions by Nostradamus are widely quoted. Survivalists are digging caves. Evangelical sects are getting ready for famine, flood, comets and war to accompany the End of the Days, as outlined in the books of Daniel and Revelation...