Today's Stichomancy for Eddie Murphy

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine:

table, and appraised the sudden sense of responsibility that had fallen on these reckless, careless frontiersmen. "I am wondering what else he is. Really, he seems to be the bogey man of Gimlet Butte."

There was another instant silence, and again it was Soapy that lifted it. "I expaict you'll like Wyoming, Miss Messiter; leastways I hope you will. There's a right smart of country here." His gaze went out of the open door to the vast sea of space that swam in the fine sunset light. "Yes, most folks that ain't plumb spoilt with city ways likes it."

"Sure she'll like it. Y'u want to get a good, easy-riding hawss,

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

It smell so like the waters of Lethe, and of that fountain of youth that the Conquistadores sought for in the Floridas, and find him all too late."

Whilst he was speaking, Lucy had been examining the flowers and smelling them. Now she threw them down saying, with half laughter, and half disgust,

"Oh, Professor, I believe you are only putting up a joke on me. Why, these flowers are only common garlic."

To my surprise, Van Helsing rose up and said with all his sternness, his iron jaw set and his bushy eyebrows meeting,

"No trifling with me! I never jest! There is grim purpose

Dracula

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James:

he pronounced it a product of both. The case he wanted to put to me was a matter on which it concerned him to have the impression-- the judgement, he might also say--of another person. "I mean of the average intelligent man, but you see I take what I can get." There would be the technical, the strictly legal view; then there would be the way the question would strike a man of the world. He had lighted another cigarette while he talked, and I saw he was glad to have it to handle when he brought out at last, with a laugh slightly artificial: "In fact it's a subject on which Miss Anvoy and I are pulling different ways."

"And you want me to decide between you? I decide in advance for

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:

Song_of_songs 1: 9 I have compared thee, O my love, to a steed in Pharaoh's chariots.

Song_of_songs 1: 10 Thy cheeks are comely with circlets, thy neck with beads.

Song_of_songs 1: 11 We will make thee circlets of gold with studs of silver.

Song_of_songs 1: 12 While the king sat at his table, my spikenard sent forth its fragrance.

Song_of_songs 1: 13 My beloved is unto me as a bag of myrrh, that lieth betwixt my breasts.

Song_of_songs 1: 14 My beloved is unto me as a cluster of henna in the vineyards of En-gedi.

Song_of_songs 1: 15 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thine eyes are as doves.

Song_of_songs 1: 16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant; also our couch is leafy.

Song_of_songs 1: 17 The beams of our houses are cedars, and our panels are cypresses.

Song_of_songs 2: 1 I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

Song_of_songs 2: 2 As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

The Tanach