| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith: HARDCASTLE. The girl would actually make one run mad! I tell you,
I'll not be convinced. I am convinced. He has scarce been three hours
in the house, and he has already encroached on all my prerogatives.
You may like his impudence, and call it modesty; but my son-in-law,
madam, must have very different qualifications.
MISS HARDCASTLE. Sir, I ask but this night to convince you.
HARDCASTLE. You shall not have half the time, for I have thoughts of
turning him out this very hour.
MISS HARDCASTLE. Give me that hour then, and I hope to satisfy you.
HARDCASTLE. Well, an hour let it be then. But I'll have no trifling
with your father. All fair and open, do you mind me.
She Stoops to Conquer |
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 The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: But this was where the case of Sir Richmond became so
interesting. Was it really true that the companionship of
women was necessary to these energetic creative types? Was it
the fact that the drive of life towards action, as
distinguished from contemplation, arose out of sex and needed
to be refreshed by the reiteration of that motive? It was a
plausible proposition: it marched with all the doctor's ideas
of natural selection and of the conditions of a survival that
have made us what we are. It was in tune with the Freudian
analyses.
"SEX NOT ONLY A RENEWAL OF LIFE IN THE SPECIES," noted the
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