Today's Stichomancy for Noah Wyle

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart:

that, as he had gone there with a lady, they would dine leisurely, and Arnold would have plenty of time to get back."

"What about your own dinner?" I asked curiously.

"Sir," he said pompously, "I have given you a wrong estimate of Wilson Budd Hotchkiss if you think that a question of dinner would even obtrude itself on his mind at such a time as this."

He was a frail little man, and to-night he looked pale with heat and over-exertion.

"Did you have any luncheon?" I asked.

He was somewhat embarrassed at that.

"I - really, Mr. Blakeley, the events of the day were so

The Man in Lower Ten

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

less attitudes of death. The head of the old skipper, leaning back in the stern of the long-boat, had fallen on his breast, and he looked as though he would never wake. Farther out old Mahon's face was upturned to the sky, with the long white beard spread out on his breast, as though he had been shot where he sat at the tiller; and a man, all in a heap in the bows of the boat, slept with both arms embracing the stem-head and with his cheek laid on the gunwale. The East looked at them without a sound.

"I have known its fascinations since: I have seen the mysterious shores, the still water, the lands of brown na-

Youth

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton:

fact that he was virtually a prisoner, and then dis- missed without admission to the audience he sought with the mikado. He had gone then to bleak, in- hospitable Sitka, to find the settlement there in a plague of scurvy and starvation only slightly miti- gated by vodka. Down the coast then he sailed to the Spanish settlement for food for the settlement. He comes to that place where in his vision he sees arise that city of the future which we know now as San Francisco. Masterful man that he is, he feels that here some great thing awaits him. The

Rezanov

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 Salome by Oscar Wilde:

Rentrons. Vous n'oubliez pas qu'au lever du soleil nous allons tous e la chasse. Aux ambassadeurs de Cesar il faut faire tout honneur, n'est-ce pas?

LE SECOND SOLDAT. Comme il a l'air sombre, le tetrarque.

LE PREMIER SOLDAT. Oui, il a l'air sombre.

HERODE. Salome, Salome, dansez pour moi. Je vous supplie de danser pour moi. Ce soir je suis triste. Oui, je suis tres triste ce soir. Quand je suis entre ici, j'ai glisse dans le sang, ce qui est d'un mauvais presage, et j'ai entendu, je suis sur que j'ai entendu un battement d'ailes dans l'air, un battement d'ailes gigantesques. Je ne sais pas ce que cela veut dire . . . Je suis triste ce soir.