Hallowe'en Bibliomancy
For Hallowe'en, I thought I might indulge the old superstitious practice of picking a random book from the bookshelf and opening it at any given page. My hand lifted automatically to my old battered copy of Clive Barker's Weaveworld . The passage to which I flipped reveals one of the antagonists, Hobart, considering how his perception of reality is fraying: "Unreal was dreams of power without the flesh to give them weight." And: "Now that I know it's all a lie ... I'm safe, aren't I?" The book has never been adapted for film, but you can find Weaveworld in a three-part audiobook in this playlist on Youtube . Google's AI summarizes this superstition, defining it as Bibliomancy: "The superstition of randomly opening a book to find guidance or predict the future is known as bibliomancy (or sometimes stichomancy or rhapsodomancy ). The core belief is that the randomly selected passage offers a divine or prophetic message r...
