Today's Stichomancy for Jude Law

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber:

two--that's dune climbing. A back-breaking business, unless you're young and strong, as were these two. They explored the woods, and Heyl had a fascinating way of talking about stones and shrubs and trees as if they were endowed with human qualities--as indeed they were for him. They found a hill-slope carpeted with dwarf huckleberry plants, still bearing tiny clusters of the blue-black fruit. Fanny's heart was pounding, her lungs ached, her cheeks were scarlet, her eyes shining. Heyl, steel-muscled, took the hills like a chamois. Once they crossed hands atop a dune and literally skated down it, right, left, right, left,

Fanny Herself

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

her, bitter and momentary. "Nesty, tippling puggy!" she thought; and the next moment she had knocked guardedly at Archie's door and was bidden enter.

Archie had been looking out into the ancient blackness, pierced here and there with a rayless star; taking the sweet air of the moors and the night into his bosom deeply; seeking, perhaps finding, peace after the manner of the unhappy. He turned round as she came in, and showed her a pale face against the window-frame.

"Is that you, Kirstie?" he asked. "Come in!"

"It's unco late, my dear," said Kirstie, affecting unwillingness.

"No, no," he answered, "not at all. Come in, if you want a crack. I am

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac:

fine Caucasian race than to a breed of herbivorous animals. The total absence of all the usual characteristics of the social man made that bare head still more remarkable. The face, bronzed by the sun (its angular outlines presenting a sort of vague likeness to the granite which forms the soil of the region), was the only visible portion of the body of this singular being. From the neck down he was wrapped in a "sarrau" or smock, a sort of russet linen blouse, coarser in texture than that of the trousers of the less fortunate conscripts. This "sarrau," in which an antiquary would have recognized the "saye," or the "sayon" of the Gauls, ended at his middle, where it was fastened to two leggings of goatskin by slivers, or thongs of wood, roughly

The Chouans

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 The Tanach:

Psalms 107: 8 Let them give thanks unto the LORD for His mercy, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!

Psalms 107: 9 For He hath satisfied the longing soul, and the hungry soul He hath filled with good.

Psalms 107: 10 Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron--

Psalms 107: 11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the Most High.

Psalms 107: 12 Therefore He humbled their heart with travail, they stumbled, and there was none to help--

Psalms 107: 13 They cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses.

Psalms 107: 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in sunder.

Psalms 107: 15 Let them give thanks unto the LORD for His mercy, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!

Psalms 107: 16 For He hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.

Psalms 107: 17 Crazed because of the way of their transgression, and afflicted because of their iniquities--

Psalms 107: 18 Their soul abhorred all manner of food, and they drew near unto the gates of death--

The Tanach