NEW YORK - Nostradamus enthusiasts claim to have discovered the proof-positive that has long eluded them to show that the controversial prophet was not a fraud. The seer's devotees say they have uncovered a long-lost writing of the mysterious prophet predicting that people in the centuries following his death would regard him as a hoax -- which is exactly what has happened. "He was right on the mark," said Bradleys Roadhouse, President of the International Nostradamus Society. "Only Nostradamus could have predicted that one."
The newly-discovered "Quatrain of Nostradamus" reads as follows:
A great clamor will be heard on the plains of man,
and the multitudes will strike at the good one,
and he will be reviled, though his words are true,
and the people will be caught in the wheels of a giant machine -- turning, turning, turning endlessly.
"That's about as clear as a prediction could be," said Roadhouse. "What further proof could we possibly provide these skeptics?"
According to Roadhouse, the newly-discovered writing not only contains Nostradamus' prediction about his own skeptics, but it also foretells the rise of a mechanized society.
