| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: boardwalk. First, he realized that the sea was blue and that
there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and
roaredreally all the banalities about the ocean that one could
realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were
banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.
"Now we'll get lunch," ordered Kerry, wandering up with the
crowd. "Come on, Amory, tear yourself away and get practical."
"We'll try the best hotel first," he went on, "and thence and so
forth."
They strolled along the boardwalk to the most imposing hostelry
in sight, and, entering the dining-room, scattered about a table.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: there just now. You want sun! You want life! Why, you're wasting away!
Come away with me! Come to Africa! Oh, hang Sir Clifford! Chuck him,
and come along with me. I'll marry you the minute he divorces you. Come
along and try a life! God's love! That place Wragby would kill anybody.
Beastly place! Foul place! Kill anybody! Come away with me into the
sun! It's the sun you want, of course, and a bit of normal life.'
But Connie's heart simply stood still at the thought of abandoning
Clifford there and then. She couldn't do it. No...no! She just
couldn't. She had to go back to Wragby.
Michaelis was disgusted. Hilda didn't like Michaelis, but she ALMOST
preferred him to Clifford. Back went the sisters to the Midlands.
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: four days, and an axe, and plenty of matches, and make a straight
line through the woods. But it wouldn't be a joke, M'sieu', I can
tell you."
The river Peribonca, into which Lake Tchitagama flows without a
break, is the noblest of all the streams that empty into Lake St.
John. It is said to be more than three hundred miles long, and at
the mouth of the lake it is perhaps a thousand feet wide, flowing
with a deep, still current through the forest. The dead-water
lasted for several miles; then the river sloped into a rapid,
spread through a net of islands, and broke over a ledge in a
cataract. Another quiet stretch was followed by another fall, and
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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 King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: 1 KEEPER.
Forbear awhile; we'll hear a little more.
KING HENRY.
My queen and son are gone to France for aid;
And, as I hear, the great commanding Warwick
Is thither gone to crave the French king's sister
To wife for Edward. If this news be true,
Poor queen and son, your labour is but lost,
For Warwick is a subtle orator,
And Lewis a prince soon won with moving words.
By this account then Margaret may win him,
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