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Today's Stichomancy for Harry Houdini

The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato:

wisdom or temperance I believe to be really a great good; and happy are you, Charmides, if you certainly possess it. Wherefore examine yourself, and see whether you have this gift and can do without the charm; for if you can, I would rather advise you to regard me simply as a fool who is never able to reason out anything; and to rest assured that the more wise and temperate you are, the happier you will be.

Charmides said: I am sure that I do not know, Socrates, whether I have or have not this gift of wisdom and temperance; for how can I know whether I have a thing, of which even you and Critias are, as you say, unable to discover the nature?--(not that I believe you.) And further, I am sure, Socrates, that I do need the charm, and as far as I am concerned, I shall

The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The United States Bill of Rights:

and the persons or things to be seized.

V

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.

VI

The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young:

looked first at the night-gown and then at the lady, then at Sister Helen Vincula. She did not know or care what it was all about--she scarcely wondered.

``Sister Helen Vincula,'' said the lady, ``I know past all doubting that I worked this name. You believe that. Much more past all doubting do you not know--You must know--''

``Ah,'' said Sister Helen Vincula, ``I hope with you.'' She reached for the little night-gown, and she smoothed it in her fingers. ``Ah,'' she said, ``the child has grown since she has been with us, so much, but the little gown--it looks--really smaller to me--

But the lady was not listening to Sister Helen Vincula. She had her