| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie: daughters, to whom is due the thanks and gratitude of two great
countries!"
CHAPTER XXVIII
AND AFTER
"THAT was a mighty good toast, Jane," said Mr. Hersheimmer, as he
and his cousin were being driven back in the Rolls-Royce to the
Ritz.
"The one to the joint venture?"
"No--the one to you. There isn't another girl in the world who
could have carried it through as you did. You were just
wonderful! "
Secret Adversary |
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 Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: calls up, which he subsequently reads to his admiring companions.
Hot sake is next served, which is to them what beer is to a German
or absinthe to a blouse; and there they sit, sip, and poetize,
passing their couplets, as they do their cups, in honor to one
another. At last, after drinking in an hour or two of scenery and
sake combined, the symposium of poets breaks up.
Sometimes, instead of a company of friends, a man will take his
family, wife, babies, and all, on such an outing, but the details of
his holiday are much the same as before. For the scenery is still
the centre of attraction, and in the attendant creature comforts Far
Eastern etiquette permits an equal enjoyment to man, woman, and
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