| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Presently Clayton awoke. It was several minutes before he
could gather his senses sufficiently to realize where he was,
or recall the disaster of the previous night. Finally his
bewildered eyes fell upon the girl.
"Jane!" he cried. "Thank God that we are together!"
"Look," said the girl dully, indicating the horizon with an
apathetic gesture. "We are all alone."
Clayton scanned the water in every direction.
"Where can they be?" he cried. "They cannot have gone down,
for there has been no sea, and they were afloat after the
yacht sank--I saw them all."
The Return of Tarzan |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Koran: him whom, if God pleased, He would feed? ye are only in an obvious
error.'
They say, 'When shall this promise come to pass, if ye do tell the
truth?' They await but a single noise, that shall seize them as they
are contending. And they shall not be able to make a bequest; nor to
their people shall they return; but the trumpet shall be blown, and,
behold, from their graves unto their Lord shall they slip out!
They shall say, 'O, woe is us! who has raised us up from our
sleeping-place? this is what the Merciful promised, and the apostles
told the truth!' It shall be but a single noise, and lo! they are
all arraigned before us.
The Koran |
