| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: head sank and his little hind flippers flew up exactly as his
mother had told him in the song, and if the next wave had not
thrown him back again he would have drowned.
After that, he learned to lie in a beach pool and let the wash
of the waves just cover him and lift him up while he paddled, but
he always kept his eye open for big waves that might hurt. He was
two weeks learning to use his flippers; and all that while he
floundered in and out of the water, and coughed and grunted and
crawled up the beach and took catnaps on the sand, and went back
again, until at last he found that he truly belonged to the water.
Then you can imagine the times that he had with his
The Jungle Book |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: it now. The train leaves"--she glanced at her wrist--"in
two minutes, thank Heaven, and this will be your last
chance."
"All right," said Heyl. "I have got something to say. Do
you wear hatpins?"
"Hatpins!" blankly. "Not with this small hat, but what----"
"That means you're defenseless. If you're going to prowl
the streets of Chicago alone get this: If you double your
fist this way, and tuck your thumb alongside, like that, and
aim for this spot right here, about two inches this side of
the chin, bringing your arm back, and up, quickly, like a
Fanny Herself |
