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~ Saturday, May 17, 2003
HANDS OUT Some palmistry bunkum: The palm contains lines pertaining to fate, life, the heart, the head and health. These are the areas on the fingers which pertain to certain qualities (first section up to tip): thumb - love (ball of the thumb), logic, will index finger - domination, ambition, religion digitus impudicus - success, recreation, impulse ring finger - vanity, pessimism, optimism pinkie - cunning, purpose, oratory Source: 'palmistry chart' on reverse of fortune telling card from a machine in San Francisco's brilliant Musée Méchanique, a museum of slot machines. |