| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: I spoke, I did not look at her. I dared not.
A clock chimed the three-quarters. A quarter to seven. Thank
you. A moment later we were arranging our escape.
When retrieved, our impedimenta would consist of her parasol and
dressing-bag, and my dressing-case. My stick and gloves were in
the hall, and I decided to let them go. Her bag was in a fair
bedroom- a little brass knocker upon the door- hard by the top of
the staircase. She had heard them put my case in the room
adjoining. Very well. She was to sit- loll, if she liked- in
the arbour, where tea had been served, while I ventured indoors
and secured the luggage. Once across the lawn, I was to drop it
The Brother of Daphne |
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 Sarrasine by Honore de Balzac: I had brought that young woman to Madame de Lanty's ball. As it was
her first visit to that house, I forgave her her stifled laugh; but I
hastily made an imperious sign which abashed her and inspired respect
for her neighbor. She sat down beside me. The old man did not choose
to leave the charming creature, to whom he clung capriciously with the
silent and apparently causeless obstinacy to which very old persons
are subject, and which makes them resemble children. In order to sit
down beside the young lady he needed a folding-chair. His slightest
movements were marked by the inert heaviness, the stupid hesitancy,
which characterize the movements of a paralytic. He sat slowly down
upon his chair with great caution, mumbling some unintelligible words.
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