| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: I stopped to speak with him awhile;
"Oh, tell me, Grandpa, pray,
I said, "why do you work so hard
Throughout the livelong day?
Your hair is gray, your back is bent,
With weight of years oppressed;
This is the evening of your life--
Why don't you sit and rest?"
"Ah, no," the old man answered me,
"Although I'm old and gray,
I like to work out here where I
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: box, it kills. Now draw near and you shall know as much of
this secret as I am able to tell you." All drew close to him
with an expression of curiosity. "Approach," continued
D'Artagnan, "and let not the bird which passes over our
heads, the rabbit which sports on the downs, the fish which
bounds from the waters, hear us. Our business is to learn
and to report to monsieur le surintendant of the finances to
what extent English smuggling is injurious to the French
merchants. I shall enter every place, and see everything. We
are poor Picard fishermen, thrown upon the coast by a storm.
It is certain that we must sell fish, neither more nor less,
Ten Years Later |
| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: consecrated virgins of Kildare.
I am not drawing from mere imagination. That such things must have
happened, and happened again and again, is certain to anyone who
knows, even superficially, the documents of that time. And I doubt
not that, in manners as well as in religion, the Norse were
humanised and civilised by their contact with the Celts, both in
Scotland and in Ireland. Both peoples had valour, intellect,
imagination: but the Celt had that which the burly angular Norse
character, however deep and stately, and however humorous, wanted;
namely, music of nature, tenderness, grace, rapidity, playfulness;
just the qualities, combining with the Scandinavian (and in Scotland
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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 White Moll by Frank L. Packard: number, which she, in turn, was to transmit to the White Moll - in
other words, herself! But the White Moll, so he believed, had never
received that message - and it must of necessity be as the White
Moll that she must communicate with him to-night! It would be hard
to explain - she meant to evade it. The one vital point was that
she remembered the telephone number he had given her that night when
he and Danglar had met in the garret. She was not likely to have
forgotten it!
Rhoda Gray, alias Gypsy Nan, scuffled along. Was she inconsistent?
The Adventurer would be in his element in going to the Pug's room,
and in relieving Pinkie Bonn of that money; but the Adventurer, too,
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