Today's Stichomancy for Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Ezra 2: 48 the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam;

Ezra 2: 49 the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai;

Ezra 2: 50 the children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephusim;

Ezra 2: 51 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur;

Ezra 2: 52 the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha;

Ezra 2: 53 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah;

Ezra 2: 54 the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

Ezra 2: 55 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Hassophereth, the children of Peruda;

Ezra 2: 56 the children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel;

Ezra 2: 57 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Ami.

Ezra 2: 58 All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety and two.

The Tanach

The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson:

of sin? Perhaps even when we dream of doing wrong, the dream comes in a shape so lovely and misleading that we never recognize it for evil, and it makes no stain. Are our lives ever so pure as our dreams?

This thought somehow smote across her conscience, always so strong, and stirred it into a kind of spasm of introspection. "How selfish have I, too, been!" she thought. "I saw only what I wished to see, did only what I preferred. Loving Philip" (for the sudden self-reproach left her free to think of him), "I could not see that I was separating him from one whom he might perhaps have truly loved. If he made me blind, may he

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis:

a pale arc as she knelt beside a cumbrous black-walnut bed, beside a puffy mattress covered with a red quilt, in a shuttered and airless room.

CHAPTER VIII

"DON'T I, in looking for things to do, show that I'm not attentive enough to Will? Am I impressed enough by his work? I will be. Oh, I will be. If I can't be one of the town, if I must be an outcast----"

When Kennicott came home she bustled, "Dear, you must tell me a lot more about your cases. I want to know. I want to understand."

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 Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson:

manners, and of tracing human nature through all its variations.

"From Persia I passed into Arabia, where I saw a nation pastoral and warlike, who lived without any settled habitation, whose wealth is their flocks and herds, and who have carried on through ages an hereditary war with mankind, though they neither covet nor envy their possessions."

CHAPTER X - IMLAC'S HISTORY (CONTINUED) - A DISSERTATION UPON POETRY.

"WHEREVER I went I found that poetry was considered as the highest learning, and regarded with a veneration somewhat approaching to that which man would pay to angelic nature. And yet it fills me