Today's Stichomancy for OJ Simpson

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs:

The watcher saw his quarry set down his burden, seat himself beside it and proceed to roll a cigaret; then he faded away in the darkness and Bridge was alone.

Five or ten minutes later two slender figures ap- peared dimly out of the north. They approached timidly, stopping often and looking first this way and then that and always listening. When they arrived opposite the mill Bridge saw them and gave a low whistle. Immedi- ately the two passed through the fence and approached him.

"My!" exclaimed one, "I thought we never would get

The Oakdale Affair

The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare:

And being set, I'll smother thee with kisses:

'And yet not cloy thy lips with loath'd satiety, But rather famish them amid their plenty, 20 Making them red and pale with fresh variety; Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty: A summer's day will seem an hour but short, Being wasted in such time-beguiling sport.' 24

With this she seizeth on his sweating palm, The precedent of pith and livelihood, And, trembling in her passion, calls it balm, Earth's sovereign salve to do a goddess good: 28

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain:

keep the remark to myself; it only gave her an idea--she could save the sick buzzard, and furnish fresh meat to the despondent lions and tigers. I advised her to keep away from the tree. She said she wouldn't. I foresee trouble. Will emigrate.

Wednesday

I have had a variegated time. I escaped that night, and rode a horse all night as fast as he could go, hoping to get clear out of the Park and hide in some other country before the trouble should begin; but it was not to be. About an hour after sunup, as I was riding through a flowery plain where thousands of animals were grazing, slumbering, or playing with each other, according to their

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 Salome by Oscar Wilde:

femme hysterique, n'est-ce pas?

HERODIAS. Non. La lune ressemble e la lune, c'est tout . . . Rentrons Vous n'avez rien e faire ici.

HERODE. Je resterai! Manasse, mettez des tapis le. Allumez des flambeaux. Apportez les tables d'ivoire, et les tables de jaspe. L'air ici est delicieux. Je boirai encore du vin avec mes hotes. Aux ambassadeurs de Cesar il faut faire tout honneur.

HERODIAS. Ce n'est pas e cause d'eux que vous restez.

HERODE. Oui, l'air est delicieux. Viens, Herodias, nos hotes nous attendent. Ah! j'ai glisse! j'ai glisse dans le sang! C'est d'un mauvais presage. C'est d'un tres mauvais presage. Pourquoi y a-t-