Today's Stichomancy for Michael Jackson
| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain: And none of them pay any more than the principal of what they owe--
they pay none of the interest either simple or compound.
A Saint can never QUITE return the principal, however;
for his dead body KILLS people, whereas his relics HEAL only--
they never restore the dead to life. That part of the account is
always left unsettled.
'Dr. F. Julius Le Moyne, after fifty years of medical practice, wrote:
"The inhumation of human bodies, dead from infectious diseases,
results in constantly loading the atmosphere, and polluting the waters,
with not only the germs that rise from simply putrefaction, but also with
the SPECIFIC germs of the diseases from which death resulted."
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: bury my honor itself in your breast," she said, casting upon d'Arthez
a look, by which she gave more value to her coming confidence than to
her personal self.
"You must think me a very ordinary man, if you fear any evil, no
matter what, from me," he said, with ill-concealed bitterness.
"Forgive me, friend," she replied, taking his hand in hers
caressingly, and letting her fingers wander gently over it. "I know
your worth. You have related to me your whole life; it is noble, it is
beautiful, it is sublime, and worthy of your name; perhaps, in return,
I owe you mine. But I fear to lower myself in your eyes by relating
secrets which are not wholly mine. How can you believe--you, a man of
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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 The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: that had just taken place. Towards the end of the dinner, as the
marquis was beginning to feel uneasy, Marie returned in all the pomp
of a bridal robe. Her face was calm and joyful, while that of Francine
who followed her had terror imprinted on every feature, so that the
guests might well have thought they saw in these two women a fantastic
picture by Salvator Rosa, of Life and Death holding each other by the
hand.
"Gentlemen," said Marie to the priest, the baron, and the count, "you
are my guests for the night. I find you cannot leave Fougeres; it
would be dangerous to attempt it. My good maid has instructions to
make you comfortable in your apartments. No, you must not rebel," she
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 Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: some expenditure of energy. The animal, which can be likened, in
no small measure, to our industrial machines, demands, on the one
hand, the renovation of its organism, which wears out with
movement, and, on the other, the maintenance of the heat
transformed into action. We can compare it with the locomotive-
engine. As the iron horse performs its work, it gradually wears
out its pistons, its rods, its wheels, its boiler-tubes, all of
which have to be made good from time to time. The founder and the
smith repair it, supply it, so to speak, with 'plastic food,' the
food that becomes embodied with the whole and forms part of it.
But, though it have just come from the engine-shop, it is still
The Life of the Spider |
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