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Today's Stichomancy for Lizzie Borden

The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad:

"They thought they were being taken to Amer- ica straight away, but suddenly the steam-machine bumped against the side of a thing like a house on the water. The walls were smooth and black, and there uprose, growing from the roof as it were, bare trees in the shape of crosses, extremely high. That's how it appeared to him then, for he had never seen a ship before. This was the ship that was going to swim all the way to America. Voices shouted, everything swayed; there was a ladder dipping up and down. He went up on his hands


Amy Foster
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades:

Richard of Bury, 47. Ringwalt's Encyclopadia, 92. Rivets on books, 135. Rood and Hunte, 53. Rot caused by rain, 2 1. Royal Society, London, 71. Rubens' engraved titles in Plantin Museum, 122. --autograph receipts, 122. Ruins of fire at Sotheby and Wilkinson's, 14. Rye (W. B.), 61, 83. St. Albans, Boke of, 54.

The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin:

some support. Lastly, the pyramidal muscles of the nose contract; and these draw the eyebrows and the skin of the forehead still lower down, producing short transverse wrinkles across the base of the nose.[2] For the sake of brevity these muscles will generally be spoken of as the orbiculars, or as those surrounding the eyes.

[1] The best photographs in my collection are by Mr. Rejlander, of Victoria Street, London, and by Herr Kindermann, of Hamburg. Figs. 1, 3, 4, and 6 are by the former; and figs. 2 and 5, by the latter gentleman. Fig. 6 is given to show moderate crying in an older child.

When these muscles are strongly contracted, those running


Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals