Today's Stichomancy for Che Guevara

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Lady Susan by Jane Austen:

extensive as those of your family, the wish of increasing them, if not strictly reasonable, is too common to excite surprize or resentment. He has a right to require; a woman of fortune in his daughter-in-law, and I am sometimes quarrelling with myself for suffering you to form a connection so imprudent; but the influence of reason is often acknowledged too late by those who feel like me. I have now been but a few months a widow, and, however little indebted to my husband's memory for any happiness derived from him during a union of some years, I cannot forget that the indelicacy of so early a second marriage must subject me to the censure of the world, and incur, what would be still more insupportable, the displeasure of Mr. Vernon. I might perhaps harden myself in time against the injustice of

Lady Susan

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

Proverbs 10: 15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city; the ruin of the poor is their poverty.

Proverbs 10: 16 The wages of the righteous is life; the increase of the wicked is sin.

Proverbs 10: 17 He is in the way of life that heedeth instruction; but he that forsaketh reproof erreth.

Proverbs 10: 18 He that hideth hatred is of lying lips; and he that uttereth a slander is a fool.

Proverbs 10: 19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression; but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

Proverbs 10: 20 The tongue of the righteous is as choice silver; the heart of the wicked is little worth.

Proverbs 10: 21 The lips of the righteous feed many; but the foolish die for want of understanding.

Proverbs 10: 22 The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and toil addeth nothing thereto.

Proverbs 10: 23 It is as sport to a fool to do wickedness, and so is wisdom to a man of discernment.

Proverbs 10: 24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him; and the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

Proverbs 10: 25 When the whirlwind passeth, the wicked is no more; but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

The Tanach

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan:

'The wind is keen off the glaciers over there--anybody would think of a condiment,' Miss Anderson remarked in deprecation, and to this Brookes made no response. It was a liberty she often felt compelled to take.

The Snows appealed to Madeline even more than did Carintha, Countess of Fleetwood, to whose fortunes she gave long pauses while she looked across their summits at renunciation, and fancied her spirit made strong and equal to its task. She was glad of their sanctuary; she did not know where she should find such another. Perhaps the spectacle was more than ever sublime in its alternative to the one she had come away to postpone the sight of; at all events it drove

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 Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs:

dead man flyin' through the hair. Didn't Hi see 'is heyes? Oh, Gord! Didn't Hi see 'em?"

"It didn't look like any beast or reptile to me," spoke up Sinclair. "It was lookin' right down at me when I looked up and I saw its face plain as I see yours. It had big round eyes that looked all cold and dead, and its cheeks were sunken in deep, and I could see its yellow teeth behind thin, tight-drawn lips--like a man who had been dead a long while, sir," he added, turning toward Bradley.

"Yes!" James had not spoken since the apparition had passed over them, and now it was scarce speech which he uttered--rather a series of articulate gasps. "Yes--dead--a--long--while. It--means something.

Out of Time's Abyss