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...York, it may well be around $100. The chance of getting a ticket over the counter has irrevocably gone. To frustrate scalpers, the tour managers set up a kind of electronic lottery in which supplicants sent postcards six weeks in advance, and the cards were selected at random. The news of this selection process appeared in smallish print at the bottom of the full-page ads in the New York Times, with the result that thousands of Stones fans who did not read it were still pestering the helpless box offices in early July...
...favorite method for divining the future, but many new occultists these days combine their interest in astrology with other ancient methods of divination. The I Ching, the ancient Chinese Book of Changes, provides one of them?an elaborate and complicated casting of sticks (or in another variation, coins). Their random order of fall directs the inquirer to appropriate passages in the book, which then guide his actions. Tarot cards are another favorite. The standard tarot deck has 78 cards, 56 of the "minor arcana," similar to and forerunners of modern playing cards, and 22 "major arcana" cards depicting such mystical...