| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: off the strip of batting nailed on the flat. Anne did not know
this, but it did not take her long to realize that she was in a
dangerous plight. At this rate the flat would fill and sink long
before it could drift to the lower headland. Where were the
oars? Left behind at the landing!
Anne gave one gasping little scream which nobody ever heard; she
was white to the lips, but she did not lose her self-possession.
There was one chance--just one.
"I was horribly frightened," she told Mrs. Allan the next day,
"and it seemed like years while the flat was drifting down to the
bridge and the water rising in it every moment. I prayed, Mrs.
Anne of Green Gables |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: her go silently in the midst of some game, some discussion, with her
basket on her arm, very upright. She had noted her return. She had
thought, half laughing (she was so methodical with the tea cups), half
moved (her beauty took one's breath away), eyes that are closing in
pain have looked on you. You have been with them there.
And then Mrs Ramsay would be annoyed because somebody was late, or the
butter not fresh, or the teapot chipped. And all the time she was
saying that the butter was not fresh one would be thinking of Greek
temples, and how beauty had been with them there in that stuffy little
room. She never talked of it--she went, punctually, directly. It was
her instinct to go, an instinct like the swallows for the south, the
To the Lighthouse |
