| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: "My dear Mrs. Kennedy," he said, walking toward her. "My very dear
Mrs. Kennedy!" and he broke into a loud merry laugh.
At first she was as startled as if a ghost had invaded the store
and then, hastily removing her foot from beneath her, she stiffened
her spine and gave him a cold stare.
"What are you doing here?"
"I called on Miss Pittypat and learned of your marriage and so I
hastened here to congratulate you."
The memory of her humiliation at his hands made her go crimson with
shame.
"I don't see how you have the gall to face me!" she cried.
Gone With the Wind |
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 Louis Lambert by Honore de Balzac: that character bears the authority of terror; convulsions of nature
are interpreted with stupendous power as a vengeance from on high. In
fact, since this wandering tribe knew none of the ease enjoyed by a
community settled in a patriarchal home, their sorrows as pilgrims
inspired them with none but gloomy poems, majestic but blood-stained.
In the Hindoos, on the contrary, the spectacle of the rapid recoveries
of the natural world, and the prodigious effects of sunshine, which
they were the first to recognize, gave rise to happy images of
blissful love, to the worship of Fire and of the endless
personifications of reproductive force. These fine fancies are lacking
in the Book of the Hebrews. A constant need of self-preservation amid
Louis Lambert |
