| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: new offer, it could evidently only be in order to swindle them
more cunningly than before.
"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
Resurrection |
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 Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: a fountain in front, and peacocks strutting about on the lawn.
Well, the Fiddler smoothed down his hair and brushed his clothes
a bit, and off he went to see what was to be seen at the grand
house at the end of the garden.
He entered the door, and nobody said no to him. Then he passed
through one room after another, and each was finer than the one
he left behind. Many servants stood around; but they only bowed,
and never asked whence he came. At last he came to a room where a
little old man sat at a table. The table was spread with a feast
that smelled so good that it brought tears to the Fiddler's eyes
and water to his mouth, and all the plates were of pure gold. The
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