Today's Stichomancy for Stephen Colbert

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson:

Heads with their Bodies, which they designed; it being present Death, if any of them had been found. ALEXANDER TWEEDIE, a Friend, being with them, who at that Time was Gardner in these Yards, concluded to bury them in his Yard, being in a Box (wrapped in Linen), where they lay 45 Years except 3 Days, being executed upon the 10th of OCTOBER 1681, and found the 7th Day of OCTOBER 1726. That Piece of Ground lay for some Years unlaboured; and trenching it, the Gardner found them, which affrighted him the Box was consumed. Mr. SCHAW, the Owner of these Yards, caused lift them, and lay them upon a Table in his

The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest:

What she's discovered through the day. She steps aside for girl and lad Who have so much to tell their dad.

Our manners may not be the best; Perhaps our elbows often rest Upon the table, and at times That very worst of dinner crimes, That very shameful act and rude Of speaking ere you've downed your food, Too frequently, I fear, is done, So fast the little voices run.

A Heap O' Livin'

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs:

Galu, he will not withdraw it without a struggle."

I asked them what batu meant, as I had not before heard the word. Literally translated, it is equivalent to through, finished, done-for, as applied to an individual's evolutionary progress in Caspak, and with this information was developed the interesting fact that not every individual is capable of rising through every stage to that of Galu. Some never progress beyond the Alu stage; others stop as Bo-lu, as Sto-lu, as Bandlu or as Kro-lu. The Ho-lu of the first generation may rise to become Alus; the Alus of the second generation may become Bo-lu, while it requires three generations of Bo-lu to

The People That Time Forgot

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 The Tanach:

Psalms 101: 8 Morning by morning will I destroy all the wicked of the land; to cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the LORD.

Psalms 102: 1 (102:1) A Prayer of the afflicted, when he fainteth, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD. (102:2) O LORD, hear my prayer, and let my cry come unto Thee.

Psalms 102: 2 (102:3) Hide not Thy face from me in the day of my distress; incline Thine ear unto me; in the day when I call answer me speedily.

Psalms 102: 3 (102:4) For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth.

Psalms 102: 4 (102:5) My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; for I forget to eat my bread.

Psalms 102: 5 (102:6) By reason of the voice of my sighing my bones cleave to my flesh.

Psalms 102: 6 (102:7) I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.

Psalms 102: 7 (102:8) I watch, and am become like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop.

Psalms 102: 8 (102:9) Mine enemies taunt me all the day; they that are mad against me do curse by me.

Psalms 102: 9 (102:10) For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

Psalms 102: 10 (102:11) Because of Thine indignation and Thy wrath; for Thou hast taken me up, and cast me away.

The Tanach