| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum: his guardian.
There were pumpkins in Mombi's corn-fields, lying golden red among the rows
of green stalks; and these had been planted and carefully tended that the
four-horned cow might eat of them in the winter time. But one day, after the
corn had all been cut and stacked, and Tip was carrying the pumpkins to the
stable, he took a notion to make a "Jack Lantern" and try to give the old
woman a fright with it.
So he selected a fine, big pumpkin -- one with a lustrous, orange-red color
-- and began carving it. With the point of his knife he made two round eyes,
a three-cornered nose, and
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The Marvelous Land of Oz |
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 Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: addled, that's all. You can depend on it, the lady of the empty
house last week is the lady of last night. And yet your train
acquaintance was in Altoona at that time."
Just before we got off the car, I reverted to the subject again. It
was never far back in my mind.
"About the - young lady of the train, Rich," I said, with what I
suppose was elaborate carelessness, "I don't want you to get a wrong
impression. I am rather unlikely to see her again, but even if I do,
I - I believe she is already 'bespoke,' or next thing to it."
He made no reply, but as I opened the door with my latch-key he
stood looking up at me from the pavement with his quizzical smile.
The Man in Lower Ten |
