| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: was sorting buttons in the shop.
'I cannot return to France with nothing better than the word
of an unsophisticated savage," he says.
'"Hasn't the President said anything to you?" I asked him.
'"He has said everything that one in his position ought to say,
but - but if only I had what he said to his Cabinet after Genet rode
off I believe I could change Europe - the world, maybe."
'"I'm sorry," I says. "Maybe you'll do that without my help."
'He looked at me hard. "Either you have unusual observation
for one so young, or you choose to be insolent," he says.
'"It was intended for a compliment," I says. "But no odds.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: weird, distorted smallish beings like men, off for an excursion to
Matlock, her bowels fainted and she thought: Ah God, what has man done
to man? What have the leaders of men been doing to their fellow men?
They have reduced them to less than humanness; and now there can be no
fellowship any more! It is just a nightmare.
She felt again in a wave of terror the grey, gritty hopelessness of it
all. With such creatures for the industrial masses, and the upper
classes as she knew them, there was no hope, no hope any more. Yet she
was wanting a baby, and an heir to Wragby! An heir to Wragby! She
shuddered with dread.
Yet Mellors had come out of all this!--Yes, but he was as apart from it
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
