Today's Stichomancy for Shigeru Miyamoto
| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: vines, furnished with the luxurious teakwood chairs of the
tropics of which you can so extend the arms as to form two
comfortable and elevated rests for your feet. Horns of various
animals ornamented the walls. A megaphone and a huge terrestrial
telescope on a tripod stood in one corner. Through the latter one
could examine at favourable times the herds of game on the
plains.
And inside-mind you, we were fresh from three months in the
wilderness-we found rugs, pictures, wall paper, a pianola, many
books, baths, beautiful white bedrooms with snowy mosquito
curtains, electric lights, running water, and above all an
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: religious thought finely expressed, may be heard, rehearsed,
collected, published, and distributed by associations. The desire
for expression implies a sort of assembly, a hearer at least as well
as a speaker. And expression has many forms. People with a strong
artistic impulse will necessarily want to express themselves by art
when religion touches them, and many arts, architecture and the
drama for example, are collective undertakings. I do not see why
there should not be, under God, associations for building cathedrals
and suchlike great still places urgent with beauty, into which men
and women may go to rest from the clamour of the day's confusions; I
do not see why men should not make great shrines and pictures
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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 Christ in Flanders by Honore de Balzac: Forgetful of thy heroic devotion, thy pure life, thy abundant faith,
thou didst resign thy primitive power and thy spiritual supremacy for
fleshly power. Thy linen vestments, thy couch of moss, the cell in the
rock, bright with rays of the Light Divine, was forsaken; thou hast
sparkled with diamonds, and shone with the glitter of luxury and
pride. Then, grown bold and insolent, seizing and overturning all
things in thy course like a courtesan eager for pleasure in her days
of splendor, thou hast steeped thyself in blood like some queen
stupefied by empery. Dost thou not remember to have been dull and
heavy at times, and the sudden marvelous lucidity of other moments; as
when Art emerges from an orgy? Oh! poet, painter, and singer, lover of
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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 Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall
drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on: for your
heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.'
He therefore that gave life and body will assuredly give food and
raiment: he that feedeth the fowls of the air and arrayeth with
such beauty the lilies of the field. `But, seek ye first,' saith
Christ, `the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these
things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for
the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of
itself. Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should
do to you, do ye even so to them. Enter ye in at the strait
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