| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: youth who had wearied McWilliams so and rode in silence.
It was again getting close to nightfall. The slant sun was
throwing its rays on less and less of the trail. They could see
the shadows grow and the coolness of night sift into the air.
They were pushing on to pass the rim of a great valley basin that
lay like a saucer in the mountains in order that they might camp
in the valley by a stream all of them knew. Dusk was beginning to
fall when they at last reached the saucer edge and only the
opposite peaks were still tipped with the sun rays. This, too,
disappeared before they had descended far, and the gloom of the
great mountains that girt the valley was on all their spirits,
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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 Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: temperamental, or emotional, or dramatic, or historic, or
all four. They would be playing tag, perhaps, in one of the
cool, green ravines that were the beauty spots of the little
Wisconsin town.
They nestled like exquisite emeralds in the embrace of the
hills, those ravines, and Winnebago's civic surge had not
yet swept them away in a deluge of old tin cans, ashes, dirt
and refuse, to be sold later for building lots. The Indians
had camped and hunted in them. The one under the Court
Street bridge, near the Catholic church and monastery, was
the favorite for play. It lay, a lovely, gracious thing,
Fanny Herself |
