Juliana said, "Where's your copy?
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Turning, Hawthorne started off. She and Caroline followed, through the room of people, toward a closed door. At the door he left them. When he re-emerged, they all saw the black-backed twin volumes.
"I don't use the yarrow stalks," he said to Juliana. "I can't get the hang of
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Juliana seated herself at a coffee table in the corner. "I have to have paper to write on and a pencil."
One of the guests brought her paper and pencil. The people in the room moved in to form a ring around her and the Abendsens, listening and watching.
"You may say the question aloud," Hawthorne said. "We
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Juliana said, "Oracle, why did you write The Grasshopper Lies Heavy? What are we supposed to learn?"
"You have a disconcertingly superstitious way of phrasing your question," Hawthorne said. But he had squatted down to witness the coin throwing. "Go ahead," he said; he handed her three Chinese brass coins with holes in the center. "I generally use
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She began throwing the coins; she felt calm and very much herself. Hawthorne wrote down her lines for her. When she had thrown the coins six times, he gazed down and said:
"Sun at the top. Tui at the bottom. Empty in the center."
"Do you know what hexagram that is?" she said. "Without using the chart?"
"Yes," Hawthorne said.
"It's Chung Fu," Juliana
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Raising his head, Hawthorne scrutinized her. He had now an almost savage expression. "It means, does it, that my book is true?"
"Yes," she said.
With anger he said, "Germany and Japan lost the war?"
"Yes."