[UA] Magick Schools: Lingomancy

[Nick Wedig]

>The anonymous assigners of the "true names?"
>I'm seeing these gray, nondescript cats that work at the Bureau of Weights and
>Standards, assigning metaphysical designations to all the atomic elements in an
>enormous ritual to control them.
>Holy crap--I find this chilling far beyond its potential use in a game.

The guys who assign Library of Congress categorizations?  

Looking through the various books I had while waiting in a bookstore for several hours (for Neil Gaiman signing his new book) I noticed how odd these things can be, and how arbitrary.  American Gods is listed as "American myths - fiction" "ex-cons - fiction" and "widowers-fiction" or something similar, which makes me think someone read the first chapter and the cover blurb and assigned the categories.

The other book I got while there (The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories by Tim Burton... which may or may not be UAish depending on what you thought of his movies) was listed as "human abnormalities - poetry".  I bet it's the only book in that class.

Some gang of nomomancers or bibliomancers exerting subtle control over the powers of other bibliomancers?

Mr. Teapot
poetic human abnormality

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