Today's Stichomancy for Terry Gilliam

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken:

It whirled away. Cold silence fell. And again came tollings of a bell.

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This air is alive with witches: the white witch rides Swifter than smoke on the starlit wind. In the clear darkness, while the moon hides, They come like dreams, like something remembered . . Let us hurry! beloved; take my hand, Forget these things that trouble your eyes, Forget, forget! Our flesh is changed, Lighter than smoke we wreathe and rise . . .

The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson:

Treasure Island

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

Job 37: 5 God thundereth marvellously with His voice; great things doeth He, which we cannot comprehend.

Job 37: 6 For He saith to the snow: 'Fall thou on the earth'; likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of His mighty rain.

Job 37: 7 He sealeth up the hand of every man, that all men whom He hath made may know it.

Job 37: 8 Then the beasts go into coverts, and remain in their dens.

Job 37: 9 Out of the Chamber cometh the storm; and cold out of the north.

Job 37: 10 By the breath of God ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

Job 37: 11 Yea, He ladeth the thick cloud with moister, He spreadeth abroad the cloud of His lightning;

Job 37: 12 And they are turned round about by His guidance, that they may do whatsoever He commandeth them upon the face of the habitable world:

Job 37: 13 Whether it be for correction, or for His earth, or for mercy, that He cause it to come.

Job 37: 14 Hearken unto this, O Job; Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

Job 37: 15 Dost thou know how God enjoineth them, and causeth the lightning of His cloud to shine?

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 King James Bible:

O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.

EZE 28:23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

EZE 28:24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

EZE 28:25 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be

King James Bible