Today's Stichomancy for Jerry Seinfeld

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton:

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Glennard had turned his unseeing stare on an ecstatic Saint Catherine framed in tarnished gilding.

"It's just this way," he began again, with an effort. "When letters are as personal as--as these of my friend's. . . . Well, I don't mind telling you that the cash would make a heap of difference to me; such a lot that it rather obscures my judgment-- the fact is if I could lay my hand on a few thousands now I could get into a big thing, and without appreciable risk; and I'd like to know whether you think I'd be justified--under the circumstances. . . ." He paused, with a dry throat. It seemed to

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

Exodus 26: 21 And their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

Exodus 26: 22 And for the hinder part of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.

Exodus 26: 23 And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the hinder part.

Exodus 26: 24 And they shall be double beneath, and in like manner they shall be complete unto the top thereof unto the first ring; thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.

Exodus 26: 25 Thus there shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

Exodus 26: 26 And thou shalt make bars of acacia-wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

Exodus 26: 27 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the hinder part westward;

Exodus 26: 28 and the middle bar in the midst of the boards, which shall pass through from end to end.

Exodus 26: 29 And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for holders for the bars; and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.

Exodus 26: 30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which hath been shown thee in the mount.

The Tanach

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott:

the horn, because she can blow the best.''

``Nay but, rogue,'' said the Black Knight, ``this exceedeth thy license---Beware ye tamper not with my patience.''

``Urge me not with violence, Sir Knight,'' said the Jester, keeping at a distance from the impatient champion, ``or Folly will show a clean pair of heels, and leave Valour to find out his way through the wood as best he may.''

``Nay, thou hast hit me there,'' said the Knight; ``and, sooth to say, I have little time to jangle with

Ivanhoe

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 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte:

his pendent lips streaming with bloody slaver. The man took Cathy up; she was sick: not from fear, I'm certain, but from pain. He carried her in; I followed, grumbling execrations and vengeance. "What prey, Robert?" hallooed Linton from the entrance. "Skulker has caught a little girl, sir," he replied; "and there's a lad here," he added, making a clutch at me, "who looks an out-and- outer! Very like the robbers were for putting them through the window to open the doors to the gang after all were asleep, that they might murder us at their ease. Hold your tongue, you foul- mouthed thief, you! you shall go to the gallows for this. Mr. Linton, sir, don't lay by your gun." "No, no, Robert," said the

Wuthering Heights