Today's Stichomancy for Michael Jackson

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

Proverbs 5: 6 Lest she should walk the even path of life, her ways wander, but she knoweth it not.

Proverbs 5: 7 Now therefore, O ye children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 5: 8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house;

Proverbs 5: 9 Lest thou give thy vigour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel;

Proverbs 5: 10 Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in the house of an alien;

Proverbs 5: 11 And thou moan, when thine end cometh, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

Proverbs 5: 12 And say: 'How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Proverbs 5: 13 Neither have I hearkened to the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

Proverbs 5: 14 I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.'

Proverbs 5: 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

Proverbs 5: 16 Let thy springs be dispersed abroad, and courses of water in the streets.

The Tanach

The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot:

With the other masquerades That time resumes, One thinks of all the hands That are raising dingy shades In a thousand furnished rooms.

III

You tossed a blanket from the bed, You lay upon your back, and waited; You dozed, and watched the night revealing The thousand sordid images Of which your soul was constituted;

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson:

Here at this board of jolly neighbours, I reap the credit of my labours. These were the days - I will say more - These were the grand old days of yore! The builder laboured day and night; He watched that every brick was right:

The decent men their utmost did; And the house rose - a pyramid! These were the days, our provost knows, When forty streets and crescents rose, The fruits of my creative noddle,

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 Marie by H. Rider Haggard:

said in a thrilling whisper:

"Oh! husband, has God sent you to call me? I am ready, husband, I am ready!" and she stretched out her arms wildly, letting fall the vessel, that clanked upon the ground.

"Marie!" I gasped at length; and at that word the blood rushed to her face and brow, and I saw her draw in her breath as though to scream.

"Hush!" I whispered. "It is I, Allan, who have escaped alive."

The next thing I remember was that she lay in my arms.

"What has happened here?" I asked when I had told my tale, or some of it.

"Nothing, Allan," she answered. "I received your letter at the camp,

Marie