The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: It was a bitter winter. The stormy weather was followed by sleet and snow,
and then by a hard frost which did not break till well into February. The
animals carried on as best they could with the rebuilding of the windmill,
well knowing that the outside world was watching them and that the envious
human beings would rejoice and triumph if the mill were not finished
on time.
Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was
Snowball who had destroyer the windmill: they said that it had fallen down
because the walls were too thin. The animals knew that this was not the
case. Still, it had been decided to build the walls three feet thick this
time instead of eighteen inches as before, which meant collecting much
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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: north, halfway up to the zenith, was streaked with extraordinary
colours, among which jale and dolm predominated. Just as the
principal character of an ordinary dawn is mystery, the outstanding
character of this dawn was wildness. It did not baffle the
understanding, but the heart. Maskull felt no inarticulate craving
to seize and perpetuate the sunrise, and make it his own. Instead of
that, it agitated and tormented him, like the opening bars of a
supernatural symphony.
When he looked back to the south, Branchspell's day had lost its
glare, and he could gaze at the immense white sun without flinching.
He instinctively turned to the north again, as one turns from
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