| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: "Well, then, what are you willing to rent the land at? asked
Nekhludoff.
"How can we fix a price? We cannot do it. The land is yours, and
the power is in your hands," answered some voices from among the
crowd.
"Oh, not at all. You will yourselves have the use of the money
for communal purposes."
"We cannot do it; the commune is one thing, and this is another."
"Don't you understand?" said the foreman, with a smile (he had
followed Nekhludoff to the meeting), "the Prince is letting the
land to you for money, and is giving you the money back to form a
Resurrection |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: enclosure containing them. The kissing pair might have been
behind some of these; at any rate, nobody was in sight.
Had no enigma ever been connected with her lover by his hints and
absences, Elfride would never have thought of admitting into her
mind a suspicion that he might be concerned in the foregoing
enactment. But the reservations he at present insisted on, while
they added to the mystery without which perhaps she would never
have seriously loved him at all, were calculated to nourish doubts
of all kinds, and with a slow flush of jealousy she asked herself,
might he not be the culprit?
Elfride glided downstairs on tiptoe, and out to the precise spot
A Pair of Blue Eyes |
