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- But Monday's rating dropped a point clearly suggesting the novelty was wearing off.
- Did you know there are a number of psychics working as licensed brokers on Wall Street? Some of them counsel their clients by use of tarot cards. They're all pretty successful, even in a bear market and selling short.
- I met one of them last week and thought of doing a show around her. The Wayward Witch of Wall Street, something like that.
- And of course, if her tips were any good, she could wreck the market.
- So I called her this morning and asked her how she was on predicting the future.
- She said she was occasionally prescient.
- For example, she said: I just had a fleeting vision of you sitting in an office with a craggy middle-aged man with whom you are, or will be, emotionally involved. And here I am.
- And she does all this with tarot cards?
- No. This one operates on parapsychology. She has trance-like episodes and feels things in her energy field.
- I think this lady could be very useful to you, Max.
- In what way?
- Well, you put on a news show and here's somebody who can predict tomorrow's news for you. Her name, aptly enough, is Sibyl. Sibyl the Soothsayer.
- You could give her two minutes of trance at the end of a Howard Beale Show say, once a week, Friday which is suggestively occult, and she could oraculate. Then next week everyone tunes in to see how good her predictions were.
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