Today's Stichomancy for Adriana Lima

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton:

the risk."

She smiled faintly. "It would be a great risk, certainly--I have never concealed from you how great."

"Ah, it's you who are the coward!" he exclaimed.

She had risen, and he stood facing her with his eyes on hers. The soft isolation of the falling day enveloped them: they seemed lifted into a finer air. All the exquisite influences of the hour trembled in their veins, and drew them to each other as the loosened leaves were drawn to the earth.

"It's you who are the coward," he repeated, catching her hands in his.

The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Yates Pride by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman:

sort of thing. Don't know but I should have adopted a boy myself if it hadn't been for --"

The man stopped, and his face was pink. Eudora turned her face slightly away.

"By the way," said the man, in a suddenly hushed voice, "I suppose the kid you've got there is asleep. Wouldn't do to wake him?"

"I think I had better not," replied Eudora, in a hesitating voice. She began to walk along, and Harry Lawton fell into step beside her.

"I suppose it isn't best to wake up babies; makes them cross, and

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy:

called to Vasili Andreevich to leave him the drugget which the horse no longer needed, so that he might wrap himself in it.

But Vasili Andreevich did not stop, but disappeared amid the powdery snow.

Left alone Nikita considered for a moment what he should do. He felt that he had not the strength to go off in search of a house. It was no longer possible to sit down in his old place--it was by now all filled with snow. He felt that he could not get warmer in the sledge either, for there was nothing to cover himself with, and his coat and sheepskin no longer warmed him at all. He felt as cold as though he had

Master and Man

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:

lettres de Rome. On ne m'a rien dit de cela. Enfin, vous, Tigellin, qui avez ete e Rome pendant l'hiver, vous n'avez rien entendu dire de cela?

TIGELLIN. En effet, Seigneur, je n'en ai pas entendu parler. J'explique seulement le titre. C'est un des titres de Cesar.

HERODE. Il ne peut pas venir, Cesar. Il est goutteux. On dit qu'il a des pieds d'elephant. Aussi il y a des raisons d'Etat. Celui qui quitte Rome perd Rome. Il ne viendra pas. Mais, enfin, c'est le maitre, Cesar. Il viendra s'il veut. Mais je ne pense pas qu'il vienne.

LE PREMIER NAZAREEN. Ce n'est pas de Cesar que le prophete a parle,