| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: goodness to attend Sir Duncan Campbell of Ardenvohr, while we
determine who shall return with him to his Chief? M'Aulay will
permit us to request that he be entertained with suitable
hospitality."
"I will give orders for that," said Allan M'Aulay, rising and
coming forward. "I love Sir Duncan Campbell; we have been joint
sufferers in former days, and I do not forget it now."
"My Lord of Menteith," said Sir Duncan Campbell, "I am grieved to
see you, at your early age, engaged in such desperate and
rebellious courses."
"I am young," answered Menteith, "yet old enough to distinguish
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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: soft warm buttocks, coming nearer and nearer to the very quick of her.
And she felt him like a flame of desire, yet tender, and she felt
herself melting in the flame. She let herself go. She felt his penis
risen against her with silent amazing force and assertion and she let
herself go to him She yielded with a quiver that was like death, she
went all open to him. And oh, if he were not tender to her now, how
cruel, for she was all open to him and helpless!
She quivered again at the potent inexorable entry inside her, so
strange and terrible. It might come with the thrust of a sword in her
softly-opened body, and that would be death. She clung in a sudden
anguish of terror. But it came with a strange slow thrust of peace, the
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 Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: Granice continued to proffer the paper. "I'm sorry--I think I
could have explained. But you'll take this, at any rate?"
The stranger looked at him gently. "Certainly--I'll take it."
He had his hand out. "Good-bye."
"Good-bye," Granice echoed.
He stood watching the two men move away from him through the long
light hall; and as he watched them a tear ran down his face. But
as soon as they were out of sight he turned and walked hastily
toward his room, beginning to hope again, already planning a new
statement.
Outside the building the two men stood still, and the
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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 Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm: had cut, but nothing was cut, and she was lying among the corn asleep.
Then Hans hastened home and brought a fowler's net with little bells
and hung it round about her, and she still went on sleeping. Then he
ran home, shut the house-door, and sat down in his chair and worked.
At length, when it was quite dark, Clever Elsie awoke and when she got
up there was a jingling all round about her, and the bells rang at
each step which she took. Then she was alarmed, and became uncertain
whether she really was Clever Elsie or not, and said: 'Is it I, or is
it not I?' But she knew not what answer to make to this, and stood for
a time in doubt; at length she thought: 'I will go home and ask if it
be I, or if it be not I, they will be sure to know.' She ran to the
Grimm's Fairy Tales |
