...Saure really turns out to be an adept at the difficult art of
papryomancy, the ability to prophesy through contemplating the way
people roll reefers - the shape, the licking pattern, the wrinkles and
folds or absence thereof in the paper. "You will soon be in love," sez
Saure, "see, this line here." "It's long, isn't it? Does that mean --"
"Length is usually intensity. Not time."
-- Thomas S. Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
