| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: which accentuated the rounded beauty of the girlish form.
"There," said the old woman, as she gave a final pat to one
of the folds of the garment, "you are a queen indeed!"
The girl looked down at her naked breasts and but half-
concealed limbs in horror. "They are going to lead me into
the presence of men in this half-nude condition!" she ex-
claimed.
The old woman smiled her crooked smile. "It is nothing,"
she said. "You will become accustomed to it as did I who was
brought up in the home of a minister of the gospel, where it
was considered little short of a crime for a woman to expose
Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: so. But no, nothing less than the best gold-leaf would do, because
no decoration could be gorgeous enough for the future abode of his
Freya.
His feelings for the brig and for the girl were as indissolubly
united in his heart as you may fuse two precious metals together in
one crucible. And the flame was pretty hot, I can assure you. It
induced in him a fierce inward restlessness both of activity and
desire. Too fine in face, with a lateral wave in his chestnut
hair, spare, long-limbed, with an eager glint in his steely eyes
and quick, brusque movements, he made me think sometimes of a
flashing sword-blade perpetually leaping out of the scabbard. It
'Twixt Land & Sea |
