| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: window! To see how Miggs looked on with a face expressive of
knowing how all this loveliness was got up, and of being in the
secret of every string and pin and hook and eye, and of saying it
ain't half as real as you think, and I could look quite as well
myself if I took the pains! To hear that provoking precious little
scream when the chair was hoisted on its poles, and to catch that
transient but not-to-be-forgotten vision of the happy face within--
what torments and aggravations, and yet what delights were these!
The very chairmen seemed favoured rivals as they bore her down the
street.
There never was such an alteration in a small room in a small time
 Barnaby Rudge |
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 The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely
beyond us.
JACK. We are. [Clasps hands with ALGERNON.]
CECILY. They have moments of physical courage of which we women
know absolutely nothing.
GWENDOLEN. [To JACK.] Darling!
ALGERNON. [To CECILY.] Darling! [They fall into each other's
arms.]
[Enter MERRIMAN. When he enters he coughs loudly, seeing the
situation.]
MERRIMAN. Ahem! Ahem! Lady Bracknell!
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