Today's Stichomancy for Napoleon Bonaparte

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson:

last, as a portion of the wall fell out, "but I cannot bear your being such a fool." And with that he heaved up his fireman's axe, for he was eminently just, and clove the sick man to the bed.

V. - THE DEVIL AND THE INNKEEPER.

ONCE upon a time the devil stayed at an inn, where no one knew him, for they were people whose education had been neglected. He was bent on mischief, and for a time kept everybody by the ears. But at last the innkeeper set a watch upon the devil and took him in the fact.

The innkeeper got a rope's end.

"Now I am going to thrash you," said the innkeeper.

The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum:

and princesses with most gorgeous frocks of silver and gold and purple; and shepherds dressed in knee breeches with pink and yellow and blue stripes down them, and golden buckles on their shoes; and princes with jeweled crowns upon their heads, wearing ermine robes and satin doublets; and funny clowns in ruffled gowns, with round red spots upon their cheeks and tall, pointed caps. And, strangest of all, these people were all made of china, even to their clothes, and were so small that the tallest of them was no higher than Dorothy's knee.

No one did so much as look at the travelers at first, except one little purple china dog with an extra-large head, which came

The Wizard of Oz

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen:

the double recommendation of being her brother's friend, and her friend's brother, so pure and uncoquettish were her feelings, that, though they overtook and passed the two offending young men in Milsom Street, she was so far from seeking to attract their notice, that she looked back at them only three times.

John Thorpe kept of course with Catherine, and, after a few minutes' silence, renewed the conversation about his gig. "You will find, however, Miss Morland, it would be reckoned a cheap thing by some people, for I might have sold it for ten guineas more the next day; Jackson, of Oriel,

Northanger Abbey

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:

Proverbs 19: 5 A false witness shall not be unpunished; and he that breatheth forth lies shall not escape.

Proverbs 19: 6 Many will entreat the favour of the liberal man; and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.

Proverbs 19: 7 All the brethren of the poor do hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him! He that pursueth words, they turn against him.

Proverbs 19: 8 He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul; he that keepeth understanding shall find good.

Proverbs 19: 9 A false witness shall not be unpunished; and he that breatheth forth lies shall perish.

Proverbs 19: 10 Luxury is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Proverbs 19: 11 It is the discretion of a man to be slow to anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

Proverbs 19: 12 The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.

Proverbs 19: 13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Proverbs 19: 14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers; but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

Proverbs 19: 15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

The Tanach