| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: known it, was still to be seen in the monstrous thing that twisted
and dangled in the eddying smoke.
Nor was Joan's horror lessened by the conduct of the Poonga-Poonga
boys. On the instant they recognized the head, and on the instant
rose their wild hearty laughter as they explained to one another in
shrill falsetto voices. Gogoomy's end was a joke. He had been
foiled in his attempt to escape. He had played the game and lost.
And what greater joke could there be than that the bushmen should
have eaten him? It was the funniest incident that had come under
their notice in many a day. And to them there was certainly
nothing unusual nor bizarre in the event. Gogoomy had completed
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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 Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: mistresses, or as kept wives, to cease from all forms of active toil, and,
as the passive tools of sexual reproduction, or, more decadently still, as
the mere instruments of sexual indulgence, to sink into a condition of
complete and helpless sex-parasitism.
Sex-parasitism, therefore, presents itself at the end of the nineteenth
century and beginning of the twentieth in a guise which it has never before
worn. We, the European women of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
stand therefore in a position the gravity and importance of which was not
equalled by that of any of our forerunners in the ancient civilisation. As
we master and rise above, or fall and are conquered by, the difficulties of
our position, so also will be the future, not merely of our own class, or
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