| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: say you will be sure to find in the thick of the keeest
sportsmen. He will return your servant's horse, and take my pony
in exchange; and will add," he concluded, turning his horse's
head from the stranger, "his best acknowledgments to mine for the
accommodation."
The Master of Ravenswood, having thus expressed himself, began
to move homeward, with the manner of one who has taken leave of
his company. But the stranger was not so to be shaken off. He
turned his horse at the same time, and rode in the same
direction, so near to the Master that, without outriding him,
which the formal civility of the time, and the respect due to the
The Bride of Lammermoor |
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 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: to live.
All this the gunner reported at once to his commanding officer.
What Heemskirk intended by taking upon himself to detain the Bonito
it is difficult to say, except that he meant to bring some trouble
into the life of the man favoured by Freya. He had been looking at
Jasper with a desire to strike that man of kisses and embraces to
the earth. The question was: How could he do it without giving
himself away? But the report of the gunner created a serious case
enough. Yet Allen had friends - and who could tell whether he
wouldn't somehow succeed in wriggling out of it? The idea of
simply towing the brig so much compromised on to the reef came to
'Twixt Land & Sea |
