Today's Stichomancy for Mike Myers
| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: smuisty brightness, now and again overcome with blots of cloud; of
Leith there was no more than the tops of chimneys visible, and on the
face of the water, where the haar lay, nothing at all. Out of this I
was presently aware of a sound of oars pulling, and a little after (as
if out of the smoke of a fire) a boat issued. There sat a grave man in
the stern sheets, well muffled from the cold, and by his side a tall,
pretty, tender figure of a maid that brought my heart to a stand. I
had scarce the time to catch my breath in, and be ready to meet her, as
she stepped upon the deck, smiling, and making my best bow, which was
now vastly finer than some months before, when first I made it to her
ladyship. No doubt we were both a good deal changed: she seemed to
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen: at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have
a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have
had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end;
I was at last about to jump down from the drawers.
"I saw you all over there at home so distinctly, as if you really were here;
it was again that Sunday morning; all you children stood before the table and
sung your Psalms, as you do every morning. You stood devoutly with folded
hands; and father and mother were just as pious; and then the door was opened,
and little sister Mary, who is not two years old yet, and who always dances
when she hears music or singing, of whatever kind it may be, was put into the
room--though she ought not to have been there--and then she began to dance,
Fairy Tales |
| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: thou have, Yorick, to answer to a heart so full of trust and
confidence - so good, so gentle, and unreproaching!
- I will not go to Brussels, replied I, interrupting myself. - But
my imagination went on, - I recalled her looks at that crisis of
our separation, when neither of us had power to say adieu! I
look'd at the picture she had tied in a black riband about my neck,
- and blush'd as I look'd at it. - I would have given the world to
have kiss'd it, - but was ashamed. - And shall this tender flower,
said I, pressing it between my hands, - shall it be smitten to its
very root, - and smitten, Yorick! by thee, who hast promised to
shelter it in thy breast?
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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 Salome by Oscar Wilde: peux pas les souffrir . . . Princesse, princesse, ne dis pas de ces
choses.
SALOME. Je baiserai ta bouche, Iokanaan.
LE JEUNE SYRIEN. Ah! [Il se tue et tombe entre Salome et
Iokanaan.]
LE PAGE D'HERODIAS. Le jeune Syrien s'est tue! le jeune capitaine
s'est tue! Il s'est tue, celui qui etait mon ami! Je lui avais
donne une petite boite de parfums, et des boucles d'oreilles faites
en argent, et maintenant il s'est tue! Ah! n'a-t-il pas predit
qu'un malheur allait arriver? . . . Je l'ai predit moi-meme et il ut
arrive. Je savais bien que la lune cherchait un mort, mais je ne
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