Today's Stichomancy for Akira Kurosawa

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

1_Chronicles 16: 6 and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.

1_Chronicles 16: 7 Then on that day did David first ordain to give thanks unto the LORD, by the hand of Asaph and his brethren.

1_Chronicles 16: 8 O give thanks unto the LORD, call upon His name; make known His doings among the peoples.

1_Chronicles 16: 9 Sing unto Him, sing praises unto Him; speak ye of all His marvellous works.

1_Chronicles 16: 10 Glory ye in His holy name; let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.

1_Chronicles 16: 11 Seek ye the LORD and His strength; seek His face continually.

1_Chronicles 16: 12 Remember His marvellous works that He hath done, His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth;

1_Chronicles 16: 13 O ye seed of Israel His servant, ye children of Jacob, His chosen ones.

1_Chronicles 16: 14 He is the LORD our God; His judgments are in all the earth.

1_Chronicles 16: 15 Remember His covenant for ever, the word which He commanded to a thousand generations;

1_Chronicles 16: 16 The covenant which He made with Abraham, and His oath unto Isaac;

The Tanach

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

And we wonder how it came to pass that these secrets were lost to the world. We have heard the legends of the great fighting, in which many men fought on one side and only a few on the other. These few were the Evil Ones and they were conquered. Then great fires raged over the land. And in these fires the Evil Ones and all the things made by the Evil Ones were burned. And the fire which is called the Dawn of the Great Rebirth, was the Script Fire

Anthem

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln:

to face with his family physician, Dr. Stone.

Penfield, who was an old acquaintance of the physician's, signed to him to come on the platform. After the preliminaries had been gone through, he shifted his chair around, the better to face Stone.

"Did you accompany the Misses McIntyre to the police court on Tuesday morning?" he asked.

"I did," responded the physician, "at Miss Barbara's request. She said her sister was not very well and they disliked going alone to the police court."

"Did she state why she did not ask her father to go with them?"

"Only that he had not fully recovered from an attack of tonsilitis,

The Red Seal

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 Duchesse de Langeais by Honore de Balzac:

" `Do not touch the axe!' " replied Montriveau, and there was menace in the sound of his voice.

"Really, my Lord Marquis," said Mme de Langeais, "you tell this old story that everybody knows if they have been to London, and look at my neck in such a melodramatic way that you seem to me to have an axe in your hand."

The Duchess was in a cold sweat, but nevertheless she laughed as she spoke the last words.

"But circumstances give the story a quite new application," returned he.

"How so; pray tell me, for pity's sake?"