Today's Bibliomancy for Kurt Vonnegut

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

SA2 18:7 Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.

SA2 18:8 For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

SA2 18:9 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.

SA2 18:10 And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I

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

whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:

PSA 144:12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

PSA 144:13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:

PSA 144:14 That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.

PSA 144:15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is

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

resurrection of damnation.

JOH 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

JOH 5:31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

JOH 5:32 There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.

JOH 5:33 Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.

JOH 5:34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.

JOH 5:35 He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for

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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 King James Bible:

JOH 14:11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.

JOH 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

JOH 14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

JOH 14:14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

JOH 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

JOH 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

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