| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: figure can show. You must be gone from hence forthwith."
"I will not," said Alasco peevishly. "I have been too much
hurried up and down of late--immured for day and night in a
desolate turret-chamber. I must enjoy my liberty, and pursue my
studies, which are of more import than the fate of fifty
statesmen and favourites that rise and burst like bubbles in the
atmosphere of a court."
"At your pleasure," said Varney, with a sneer that habit had
rendered familiar to his features, and which forms the principal
characteristic which painters have assigned to that of Satan--"at
your pleasure," he said; "you may enjoy your liberty and your
Kenilworth |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Koran: the prophets liars, and the threat was duly executed.
Were we then fatigued with the first creation? nay! but they are
in obscurity concerning the new creation.
But we created man, and we know what his soul whispers; for we are
nigher to him than his jugular vein!
When the two meeters meet, sitting the one on the right and the
other on the left, not a word does he utter, but a watcher is by him
ready!
And the agony of death shall come in truth!-'that is what thou didst
shun!'
And the trumpet shall be blown!-that is the threatened day!
The Koran |
