| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: possibly with the idea that of all his other treasures I could
be most easily transported, for I was young and strong and after
the horses were killed I had walked and kept up with the best
of the men. We English, you know, are great walkers, while
these Arabians had never walked since they were old enough
to ride a horse.
"I cannot tell you how much longer we kept on but at last,
with our strength almost gone, a handful of us reached the
bottom of a deep gorge. To scale the opposite side was out
of the question and so we kept on down along the sands of
what must have been the bed of an ancient river, until finally
Tarzan the Untamed |
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 Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: 1. Outside Chance; 2. Also Ran; 3. Dotty's Trotter; 4. Sure Win; 5.
High Risk; 6. Looking Good; 7. King Alphonso.
While the girl burst into unrestrained sobbing, the boy, feeling the
full difficulty of the conflict between youth and manhood, choked
his tears back, and knowing his father to be a philosophical type,
tried to see the metaphorical application of this event. "This race
is an allegory, isn't it, Father?" he asked, "where we learn that to
succeed we must avoid what appears to be a 'Sure Win' and apply
ourselves instead to the 'Outside Chance.'"
"No, my boy," the man answered. "The lesson is that we should not
pay attention to names and appearances, but that we should penetrate
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