Today's Stichomancy for Brittany Murphy

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx:

against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

Two things result from this fact.

I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European Powers to be itself a Power.

II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself.

To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London, and sketched the following Manifesto, to be

The Communist Manifesto

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

and make every body's talents conduce to the display of his own superiority; to be dispensing his flatteries around, that he may make all appear like fools compared with himself! My dear Emma, your own good sense could not endure such a puppy when it came to the point."

"I will say no more about him," cried Emma, "you turn every thing to evil. We are both prejudiced; you against, I for him; and we have no chance of agreeing till he is really here."

"Prejudiced! I am not prejudiced."

"But I am very much, and without being at all ashamed of it. My love for Mr. and Mrs. Weston gives me a decided prejudice in

Emma

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

Lamentations 3: 6 He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

Lamentations 3: 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot go forth; He hath made my chain heavy.

Lamentations 3: 8 Yea, when I cry and call for help, He shutteth out my prayer.

Lamentations 3: 9 He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.

Lamentations 3: 10 He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

Lamentations 3: 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; He hath made me desolate.

Lamentations 3: 12 He hath bent His bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

Lamentations 3: 13 He hath caused the arrows of His quiver to enter into my reins.

Lamentations 3: 14 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

Lamentations 3: 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, He hath sated me with wormwood.

Lamentations 3: 16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, He hath made me to wallow in ashes.

The Tanach

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 Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac:

These ladies belonged to the aristocratic circles of Tourainean society, to which Mademoiselle Gamard was not admitted. Therefore the abbe's abandonment was the more insulting, because it made her feel her want of social value; all choice implies contempt for the thing rejected.

"Monsieur Birotteau does not find us agreeable enough," said the Abbe Troubert to Mademoiselle Gamard's friends when she was forced to tell them that her "evenings" must be given up. "He is a man of the world, and a good liver! He wants fashion, luxury, witty conversation, and the scandals of the town."

These words of course obliged Mademoiselle Gamard to defend herself at