Today's Stichomancy for Kelly Hu

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Passionate Pilgrim by William Shakespeare:

XV.

Lord, how mine eyes throw gazes to the east! My heart doth charge the watch; the morning rise Doth cite each moving sense from idle rest. Not daring trust the office of mine eyes, While Philomela sits and sings, I sit and mark, And wish her lays were tuned like the lark;

For she doth welcome daylight with her ditty, And drives away dark dismal-dreaming night: The night so pack'd, I post unto my pretty; Heart hath his hope, and eyes their wished sight;

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

1_Chronicles 25: 17 The tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

1_Chronicles 25: 18 The eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

1_Chronicles 25: 19 The twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

1_Chronicles 25: 20 For the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

1_Chronicles 25: 21 For the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

1_Chronicles 25: 22 For the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

1_Chronicles 25: 23 For the sixteenth to Hananiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

1_Chronicles 25: 24 For the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

1_Chronicles 25: 25 For the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

1_Chronicles 25: 26 For the nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

1_Chronicles 25: 27 For the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

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 Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland:

from the face of the toy to that of the first child that happened to play with it, which child was of course, our own little girl. The most common rattles representing various kinds of fowls and animals known and unknown are made of clay. Others are in the form of fat little priests that make one think of Santa Claus, or little roly-poly children that look like the little folks who play with them. As the child grows larger the favorite rattle is a drum-

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 Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs:

them to the uttermost ends of his world, to places of which he has never even heard, yet without sun or moon or stars to guide him, without map or compass, he will travel straight for home in the shortest direction.

Mountains, rivers, and seas may have to be gone around. but never once does his sense of direction fail him--the homing instinct is supreme.

In the same remarkable way they never forget the location of any place to which they have ever been, and know that of many of which they have only heard from others who have visited them.

Pellucidar