Today's Stichomancy for George Orwell

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Long Odds by H. Rider Haggard:

out by the action of the water, and was pretty thickly sprinkled with bush, amongst which grew some large trees, I forget of what sort.

"It at once struck me that the dry pan would be a likely place to find my friends in, as there is nothing a lion is fonder of than lying up in reeds, through which he can see things without being seen himself. Accordingly thither I went and prospected. Before I had got half-way round the pan I found the remains of a blue vilderbeeste that had evidently been killed within the last three or four days and partially devoured by lions; and from other indications about I was soon assured that if the family were not in the pan that day they spent a good deal of their spare time there. But if there, the question was how to get

Long Odds

The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells:

go to a decent firm."...

We sat outside on deck chairs in the veranda of the pavilion, smoked, drank whisky, and, the chalice disposed of, meditated. His temporary annoyance passed. It was an altogether splendid summer night, following a blazing, indolent day. Full moonlight brought out dimly the lines of the receding hills, one wave beyond another; far beyond were the pin-point lights of Leatherhead, and in the foreground the little stage from which I used to start upon my gliders gleamed like wet steel. The season must have been high June, for down in the woods that hid the lights of the Lady Grove windows, I remember the nightingales

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Tanach:

Psalms 107: 26 They mounted up to the heaven, they went down to the deeps; their soul melted away because of trouble;

Psalms 107: 27 They reeled to and fro, and staggered like a drunken man, and all their wisdom was swallowed up--

Psalms 107: 28 They cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distresses.

Psalms 107: 29 He made the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof were still.

Psalms 107: 30 Then were they glad because they were quiet, and He led them unto their desired haven.

Psalms 107: 31 Let them give thanks unto the LORD for His mercy, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!

Psalms 107: 32 Let them exalt Him also in the assembly of the people, and praise Him in the seat of the elders.

Psalms 107: 33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and watersprings into a thirsty ground;

Psalms 107: 34 A fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Psalms 107: 35 He turneth a wilderness into a pool of water, and a dry land into watersprings.

Psalms 107: 36 And there He maketh the hungry to dwell, and they establish a city of habitation;

The Tanach

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 Cromwell by William Shakespeare:

Why such as he will break for fashion sake, And unto those they owe a thousand pound, Pay scarce a hundred. O, sir, beware of him. The man is lewdly given to Dice and Drabs, Spends all he hath in harlots' companies; It is no mercy for to pity him. I speak the truth of him, for nothing else, But for the kindness that I bear to you.

FRISKIBALL. If it be so, he hath deceived me much, And to deal strictly with such a one as he--