G.S.Lipon notes
that "Scry occurs in Eliot's Dry Salvages...'To report the
behaviour of the sea monster,/Describe the horoscope, haruspicate or scry..'."
After his clarification, I suddenly began to doubt that Nabokov has
also mentioned the same term. It's present in the overall setting of Pale
Fire, as it is in "Ada" with its references to Russian legends (Sklyarenko in
his excellent today's posting today mentioned lake Kitzeh ). It may be
hidden by Nabokov's plays with mirrors and reflective surfaces, Kinbote's
visions into Sudar's crystal triptych... but did Nabokov actually write it
down? Crystalomancy could have been inserted by a different word and I was
misled by a reference to it. Can anyone help? (btw, thanks,
Gary, for helping me to question what, at first, appeared to me as a
certainty! Jansy)