Today's Stichomancy for Uma Thurman
| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: may be very well inclined to praise many of the institutions of
their country, but he begs permission to blame some of the
peculiarities which he observes - a permission which is, however,
inexorably refused. America is therefore a free country, in
which, lest anybody should be hurt by your remarks, you are not
allowed to speak freely of private individuals, or of the State,
of the citizens or of the authorities, of public or of private
undertakings, or, in short, of anything at all, except it be of
the climate and the soil; and even then Americans will be found
ready to defend either the one or the other, as if they had been
contrived by the inhabitants of the country.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: "Diantha," returned Grandmother Stark, with a
suspicious glance, "always realized that clothes were
not the things that mattered."
"And, of course, she is right," said Grandmother
Wheeler, piously. "Your Diantha is one woman in
a thousand. If she cared as much for fine clothes as
some women, I don't know where we should all be.
It would spoil poor little Amelia."
"Yes, it would," assented Grandmother Stark.
"Nothing spoils a little girl more than always to be
thinking about her clothes."
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: and they made a rush into the syca- i more bunch--which was
where they was bound for, anyway--and when the pals saw them
they lit out and the two new men after them a-chasing them
as tight as they could go. But only a minute or two--then
these two new men slipped back very quiet into the sycamores.
"THEN what did they do? I will tell you what they done.
They found where the thief had got his disguise out of his
carpet-sack to put on; so one of them strips and puts on
that disguise."
Tom waited a little here, for some more "effect"--then
he says, very deliberate:
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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 Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: that the girl had taken off her hat, though the heat of the sun
was already tropical. As it happened, a labourer, Joseph W. by
name, was working in the forest near the Roman Road, and at
twelve o'clock his little son, Trevor, brought the man his
dinner of bread and cheese. After the meal, the boy, who was
about seven years old at the time, left his father at work,
and, as he said, went to look for flowers in the wood, and the
man, who could hear him shouting with delight at his
discoveries, felt no uneasiness. Suddenly, however, he was
horrified at hearing the most dreadful screams, evidently the
result of great terror, proceeding from the direction in which
The Great God Pan |
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