| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbot: be depopulated. No, no; neighbourhood is needless for the union
of hearts; and the birth of children is too important a matter
to have been allowed to depend upon such an accident as proximity.
You cannot be ignorant of this. Yet since you are pleased
to affect ignorance, I will instruct you as if you were the veriest
baby in Lineland. Know, then, that marriages are consummated
by means of the faculty of sound and the sense of hearing.
"You are of course aware that every Man has two mouths or voices
-- as well as two eyes -- a bass at one and a tenor at the other
of his extremities. I should not mention this, but that I have been
unable to distinguish your tenor in the course of our conversation."
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions |
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 Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: that the anger might have another source.
"Andre and I have been playmates from infancy. He is very dear to
me, too; almost I regard him as a brother. Were I in need of help,
and were my uncle not available, Andre would be the first man to
whom I should turn. Are you sufficiently answered, monsieur? Or
is there more of me you would desire revealed?"
He bit his lip. He was unnerved, he thought, this morning;
otherwise the silly suspicion with which he had offended could
never have occurred to him.
He bowed very low. "Mademoiselle, forgive that I should have
troubled you with such a question. You have answered more fully
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