| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber: Pirates? Norberg, you goat, who pinned that purple tie
on you?"
He was so like the Blackie we had always known that
we were at our ease immediately. The sun shone in at the
window, and some one laughed a little laugh somewhere
down the corridor, and Deming, who is Irish, plunged into
a droll description of a brand-new office boy who had
arrived that day.
"S'elp me, Black, the kid wears spectacles and a
Norfolk suit, and low-cut shoes with bows on 'em. On the
square he does. Looks like one of those Boston infants
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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 A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: golden chalky soil - and occasionally a glittering, white metallic
boulder. Everything looked extraordinary and barbaric. Maskull was
at last walking in the weird Ifdawn Marest which had created such
strange feelings in him when seen from a distance.... And now he felt
no wonder or curiosity at all, but only desired to meet human beings
- so intense had grown his will. He longed to test his powers on his
fellow creatures, and nothing else seemed of the least importance to
him.
On the peninsula all was coolness and delicate shade. It resembled a
large copse, about two acres in extent. In the heart of the tangle
of small trees and undergrowth was a partially cleared space -
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