| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: minds. . . . "Those niggers can do anything against us and the
Freedmen's Bureau and the soldiers will back them up with guns and
we can't vote or do nothin' about it."
"Vote!" she cried. "Vote! What on earth has voting got to do with
all this, Will? It's taxes we're talking about. . . . Will,
everybody knows what a good plantation Tara is. We could mortgage
it for enough to pay the taxes, if we had to."
"Miss Scarlett, you ain't any fool but sometimes you talk like one.
Who's got any money to lend you on this property? Who except the
Carpetbaggers who are tryin' to take Tara away from you? Why,
everybody's got land. Everybody's land pore. You can't give away
Gone With the Wind |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: Secret offerings were brought thither, while the women
who were celebrating the feast woke up the new-born
god. . . . Festivals of this kind in celebration of the
extinction and resurrection of the deity were held (by
women and girls only) amid the mountains at night,
every third year, about the time of the shortest day. The
rites, intended to express the excess of grief and joy at the
death and reappearance of the god, were wild even
to savagery, and the women who performed them were
hence known by the expressive names of Bacchae, Maenads,
and Thyiades. They wandered through woods and mountains,
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
