Today's Bibliomancy for Kurt Vonnegut

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from King James Bible:

mother of all living.

GEN 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

GEN 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

GEN 3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

GEN 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible:

feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.

LUK 7:45 Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.

LUK 7:46 My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.

LUK 7:47 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.

LUK 7:48 And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.

LUK 7:49 And they that sat at meat with him began to say within

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The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from King James Bible:

into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

DEU 14:7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.

DEU 14:8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.

DEU 14:9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:

DEU 14:10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is

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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from King James Bible:

in thy sight.

PSA 9:20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

PSA 10:1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

PSA 10:2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

PSA 10:3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

PSA 10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

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