| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: charging down on the relatively puny figure at terrific speed,
while the warriors leaned low to the right, with their great
metal-shod spears. Each seemed striving to be the first to
impale the poor Zodangan and in another moment his fate
would have been sealed had it not been for my timely arrival.
Driving my fleet air craft at high speed directly behind
the warriors I soon overtook them and without diminishing
my speed I rammed the prow of my little flier between the
shoulders of the nearest. The impact sufficient to have torn
through inches of solid steel, hurled the fellow's headless body
into the air over the head of his thoat, where it fell sprawling
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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 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: "Well, that's too bad. I guess they wouldn't know it themselves if
they saw it, for it shore is torn up on the inside. Now, you go on
in, Ma'm, and ask for the captain."
She went up the steps, caressing the broken white banisters, and
pushed open the front door. The hall was dark and as cold as a
vault and a shivering sentry was leaning against the closed folding
doors of what had been, in better days, the dining room.
"I want to see the captain," she said.
He pulled back the doors and she entered the room, her heart beating
rapidly, her face flushing with embarrassment and excitement. There
was a close stuffy smell in the room, compounded of the smoking
Gone With the Wind |
