| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: or herself if he is otherwise."
"What ought I to have done?"
"Given me time.... Why do you fuss yourself about melting down that pig's
fat to-night? Please put it away!"
"Then I must do it to-morrow morning. It won't keep."
"Very well--do."
XI
NEXT morning, which was Sunday, she resumed operations about ten o'clock;
and the renewed work recalled the conversation which had accompanied it
the night before, and put her back into the same intractable temper.
"That's the story about me in Marygreen, is it--that I entrapped 'ee?
Jude the Obscure |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: For I shall never have to learn again
That yours are cloven as no beech's are.
The Voice of Age
She'd look upon us, if she could,
As hard as Rhadamanthus would;
Yet one may see, -- who sees her face,
Her crown of silver and of lace,
Her mystical serene address
Of age alloyed with loveliness, --
That she would not annihilate
The frailest of things animate.
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