Today's Stichomancy for Uma Thurman

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Tanach:

Proverbs 17: 3 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but the LORD trieth the hearts.

Proverbs 17: 4 A evil-doer giveth heed to wicked lips; and a liar giveth ear to a mischievous tongue.

Proverbs 17: 5 Whoso mocketh the poor blasphemeth his Maker; and he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 17: 6 Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

Proverbs 17: 7 Overbearing speech becometh not a churl; much less do lying lips a prince.

Proverbs 17: 8 A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it; whithersoever he turneth, he prospereth.

Proverbs 17: 9 He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that harpeth on a matter estrangeth a familiar friend.

Proverbs 17: 10 A rebuke entereth deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool.

Proverbs 17: 11 An rebellious man seeketh only evil; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

Proverbs 17: 12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

Proverbs 17: 13 Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

The Tanach

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

fairest of all, if because yesterday the Lacedaemonians won you your preservation by a vote which cost them nothing, you to-day shall bring them help with arms, and at the price of peril. It is a proud day for some of us to stand here and give what aid we can in pleading for asistance to brave men. What, then, must you feel, who in very deed are able to render that assistance! How generous on your parts, who have been so often the friends and foes of Lacedaemon, to forget the injury and remember only the good they have done! How noble of you to repay, not for yourelves only, but for the sake of Hellas, the debt due to those who proved themselves good men and true in her behalf!"

[44] In reference to the Seven against Thebes, see Herod. IX. xxvii.

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.:

urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and

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 Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy:

say anything to me; but go away!"

He was evidently not aware that Winterborne had known the truth before he brought it; and Giles would not stay to discuss it with him then. When the young man had gone Melbury took his daughter in-doors to the room he used as his office. There he sat down, and bent over the slope of the bureau, her bewildered gaze fixed upon him.

When Melbury had recovered a little he said, "You are now, as ever, Fitzpiers's wife. I was deluded. He has not done you ENOUGH harm. You are still subject to his beck and call."

"Then let it be, and never mind, father," she said, with dignified

The Woodlanders