Today's Stichomancy for Sophia Loren

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs:

only means of ingress or egress to the crater world beyond the impregnable cliffs. Tyler's party had been able to navigate this channel because their craft had been a submarine; but the Toreador could as easily have flown over the cliffs as sailed under them. Jimmy Hollis and Colin Short whiled away many an hour inventing schemes for surmounting the obstacle presented by the barrier cliffs, and making ridiculous wagers as to which one Tom Billings had in mind; but immediately we were all assured that we had raised Caprona, Billings called us together.

"There was no use in talking about these things," he said,

The People That Time Forgot

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

Proverbs 20: 22 Say not thou: 'I will requite evil'; wait for the LORD, and He will save thee.

Proverbs 20: 23 Divers weights are an abomination to the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

Proverbs 20: 24 A man's goings are of the LORD; how then can man look to his way?

Proverbs 20: 25 It is a snare to a man rashly to say: 'Holy', and after vows to make inquiry.

Proverbs 20: 26 A wise king sifteth the wicked, and turneth the wheel over them.

Proverbs 20: 27 The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all the inward parts.

Proverbs 20: 28 Mercy and truth preserve the king; and his throne is upheld by mercy.

Proverbs 20: 29 The glory of young men is their strength; and the beauty of old men is the hoary head.

Proverbs 20: 30 Sharp wounds cleanse away evil; so do stripes that reach the inward parts.

Proverbs 21: 1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the watercourses: He turneth it whithersoever He will.

Proverbs 21: 2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the hearts.

The Tanach

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Crowd by Gustave le Bon:

of his right to object to a juror in the case of all individuals of intelligence on the list. Yet experience--and experience alone--has ended by acquainting us with the utter uselessness of these objections. This is proved by the fact that at the present day public prosecutors and barristers, at any rate those belonging to the Parisian bar, have entirely renounced their right to object to a juror; still, as M. des Glajeux remarks, the verdicts have not changed, "they are neither better nor worse."

Like all crowds, juries are very strongly impressed by sentimental considerations, and very slightly by argument. "They cannot resist the sight," writes a barrister, "of a mother giving

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 Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln:

on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA

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Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated. . . can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.

We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.