I've supped on hairy crabs in Shanghai (their claws are covered with golden filaments), gooseneck barnacles in Galicia (half a foot long, with blackened leathery shafts that end in a pink-and-white mosaic shelled tip, like alien phalluses), and shiokara in Tokyo (fermented squid entrails, an acquired taste).
I DECIDED to take one more crack at this: divining the future by means of the old entrails-of-a-goat routine.
It turned out to be the entrails of a deer, accompanied by a note that made a reference to White Buffalo, the Connecticut company that killed 303 deer here in January and February as part of this township's effort to thin its deer herd.
Among them - the entrails of a dead pigeon, a man dressed in gaffer tape, some sex with inanimate objects, a dying man and an act of desecration that in any other show might form a dramatic apex but in a Kim Noble show comes to seem simply par for the course.
This, I'm sure, is the real reason for love's endurance, and trying to foretell how strong that love will be probably yields results similar to casting a chicken's entrails over a divining table.
Most of us will sleep better never having seen a rat disporting itself in a dying woman's entrails while a synthesizer plays.
For example, one recommended potion contained the brains of a cat and a lizard, the menstrual blood of a whore, human semen, the womb of a frustrated bitch on heat, the entrails of a hyena, and the left skull bone of a toad.
"Too many people, especially in Greece, Troy, Egypt and the surrounding lesser civilizations, equate mistakes made by certain oracles with a failure of bird entrails as a predictive tool.
A few days later, the eyes and entrails of a tea leaf reader, who was also a doll collector, have been found in her apartment, her body being missing.
