Today's Stichomancy for Chuck Norris

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

Proverbs 31: 19 She layeth her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.

Proverbs 31: 20 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

Proverbs 31: 21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household; for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

Proverbs 31: 22 She maketh for herself coverlets; her clothing is fine linen and purple.

Proverbs 31: 23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

Proverbs 31: 24 She maketh linen garments and selleth them; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

Proverbs 31: 25 Strength and dignity are her clothing; and she laugheth at the time to come.

Proverbs 31: 26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and the law of kindness is on her tongue.

Proverbs 31: 27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

Proverbs 31: 28 Her children rise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her:

Proverbs 31: 29 'Many daughters have done valiantly, but thou excellest them all.'

The Tanach

The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Another Study of Woman by Honore de Balzac:

yes, by heaven, and pretty quickly too.

"The captain, who had been so nearly crushed, and who lay yelping in the puddle where the gun carriage had thrown him, had an Italian wife, a beautiful Sicilian of Messina, who was not indifferent to our Colonel. This circumstance had aggravated his rage. He was pledged to protect the husband, bound to defend him as he would have defended the woman herself.

"Now, in the hovel beyond Zembin, where I was so well received, this captain was sitting opposite to me, and his wife was at the other end of the table, facing the Colonel. This Sicilian was a little woman named Rosina, very dark, but with all the fire of the Southern sun in

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James:

made comfortable, advantageous, propitious for them. That isn't the artist's business."

"The artist - the artist! Isn't he a man all the same?"

St. George had a grand grimace. "I mostly think not. You know as well as I what he has to do: the concentration, the finish, the independence he must strive for from the moment he begins to wish his work really decent. Ah my young friend, his relation to women, and especially to the one he's most intimately concerned with, is at the mercy of the damning fact that whereas he can in the nature of things have but one standard, they have about fifty. That's what makes them so superior," St. George amusingly added. "Fancy

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 Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke:

such a time the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after rain. But through those clouds the Mistress of the Glen came to meet me--a stranger till then, but an appointed friend, a minister of needed grace, an angel of quiet comfort. The thick mists of rebellion, mistrust, and despair have long since rolled away, and against the background of the hills her figure stands out clearly, dressed in the fashion of fifty years ago, with the snowy hair gathered close beneath her widow's cap, and a spray of white heather in her outstretched hand.

There were no other guests in the house by the river during those still days in the noontide hush of midsummer. Every morning, while