| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: while Hugh Elsing shouted over and over: "Now you've done it! Now
you've done it!"
"Now it'll be all over town," said Rhett savagely. "I hope you're
satisfied, Tom. There won't be a wife in Atlanta who'll speak to
her husband tomorrow."
"Rhett, I had no idea--" Though the chill wind was blowing through
the open door on his back, the captain was perspiring. "Look here!
You take an oath they were at--er--at Belle's?"
"Hell, yes," growled Rhett. "Go ask Belle herself if you don't
believe me. Now, let me carry Mrs. Wilkes to her room. Give her
to me, Archie. Yes, I can carry her. Miss Pitty, go ahead with a
Gone With the Wind |
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 Life in the Iron-Mills by Rebecca Davis: break forth with renewed fury, the clamor begins with fresh,
breathless vigor, the engines sob and shriek like "gods in
pain."
As Deborah hurried down through the heavy rain, the noise of
these thousand engines sounded through the sleep and shadow of
the city like far-off thunder. The mill to which she was going
lay on the river, a mile below the city-limits. It was far, and
she was weak, aching from standing twelve hours at the spools.
Yet it was her almost nightly walk to take this man his supper,
though at every square she sat down to rest, and she knew she
should receive small word of thanks.
Life in the Iron-Mills |
