| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson: Our friends are coming if we call for them,
And there are covers we'll put over him
To make him warmer. We are too young, perhaps,
To say that we know better what is best
Than he. We do not know how old he is.
If you remember what the Master said,
Try to believe that we need have no fear.
Let me, the selfish and the careless one,
Be housewife and a mother for tonight;
For I am not so fearful as you are,
And I was not so eager."
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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 Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: at the table, and Rosy had eat and drunk a lot all evening. When it was
almost morning the waiter came up to him with a funny look and says
somebody wants to speak to him outside. 'all right,' says Rosy, and begins
to get up, and I pulled him down in his chair.
"'Let the bastards come in here if they want you, Rosy, but don't you,
so help me, move outside this room.'
"It was four o'clock in the morning then, and if we'd of raised the blinds
we'd of seen daylight."
"Did he go?" I asked innocently.
"Sure he went." Mr. Wolfshiem's nose flashed at me indignantly. "He
turned around in the door and says: 'Don't let that waiter take away
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