On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 19:14:58 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:

>Working habits and methods vary widely.  Results are crucial, the path
>taken to reach them is not.
>
>Haruspicina is messy; but If, improbably, an augur got good results by
>framing a cloud bank with his lituus, I would applaud.
> 
Sometimes one feels one needs to consult one's haruscope to divine
John G.'s meaning.

On a (very slightly) more serious note, Wikipedia, which is always
right, mentions the application of lituus to ornithomancy, but not
to areomancy.

-- gil

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