Today's Stichomancy for Coco Chanel

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx:

To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London, and sketched the following Manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages.

I. BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIANS

The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time

The Communist Manifesto

The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald:

"...But wisdom passes ... still the years Will feed us wisdom.... Age will go Back to the old For all our tears We shall not know."

Eleanor hated Maryland passionately. She belonged to the oldest of the old families of Ramilly County and lived in a big, gloomy house with her grandfather. She had been born and brought up in France.... I see I am starting wrong. Let me begin again. Amory was bored, as he usually was in the country. He used to go for far walks by himselfand wander along reciting "Ulalume" to the corn-fields, and congratulating Poe for drinking himself to

This Side of Paradise

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

Psalms 48: 5 (48:6) They saw, straightway they were amazed; they were affrighted, they hasted away.

Psalms 48: 6 (48:7) Trembling took hold of them there, pangs, as of a woman in travail.

Psalms 48: 7 (48:8) With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.

Psalms 48: 8 (48:9) As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God--God establish it for ever. Selah

Psalms 48: 9 (48:10) We have thought on Thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of Thy temple.

Psalms 48: 10 (48:11) As is Thy name, O God, so is Thy praise unto the ends of the earth; Thy right hand is full of righteousness.

Psalms 48: 11 (48:12) Let mount Zion be glad, let the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of Thy judgments.

Psalms 48: 12 (48:13) Walk about Zion, and go round about her; count the towers thereof.

Psalms 48: 13 (48:14) Mark ye well her ramparts, traverse her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

Psalms 48: 14 (48:15) For such is God, our God, for ever and ever; He will guide us eternally.

Psalms 49: 1 (49:1) For the Leader; a Psalm of the sons of Korah. (49:2) Hear this, all ye peoples; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world,

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 Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard:

know, but I almost felt as though I was being mesmerized. At last she roused herself.

'"Incubu," she said, "lovest thou power?"

'I replied that I supposed all men loved power of one sort or another.

'"Thou shalt have it," she said. "Lovest thou wealth?"

'I said I liked wealth for what it brought.

'"Thou shalt have it," she said. "And lovest thou beauty?"

'To this I replied that I was very fond of statuary and architecture, or something silly of that sort, at which she frowned, and there was a pause. By this time my nerves were on such a stretch that I was shaking like a leaf. I knew that something awful was going

Allan Quatermain