| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: - could be nothing else but generosity in her; whereas to imagine
her subjugated by something common was intolerable.
Because of the force of the physical impression he had received
from her personality (and such impressions are the real origins of
the deepest movements of our soul) this conception of her was even
inconceivable. But no Prince Charming has ever lived out of a
fairy tale. He doesn't walk the worlds of Fashion and Finance -
and with a stumbling gait at that. Generosity. Yes. It was her
generosity. But this generosity was altogether regal in its
splendour, almost absurd in its lavishness - or, perhaps, divine.
In the evening, on board his schooner, sitting on the rail, his
Within the Tides |
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 Young Forester by Zane Grey: "Kid, you ain't hurt much?" queried Buell, with concern.
I would have snapped out a reply, but I caught sight of Dick's pale face
and anxious eyes.
"Ken," he called, with both gladness and doubt in his voice, "you look
pretty good--but that blood. . . . Tell me, quick!"
"It's nothing, Dick, only a little cut. The bullet just ticked my arm."
Whatever Dick's reply was it got drowned in Herky-Jerky's long explosion of
strange language. Herky was plainly glad I had not been badly hurt. I had
already heard mirth, anger, disgust, and fear in his outbreaks, and now
relief was added. He stripped off my coat, cut off the bloody sleeve of my
shirt, and washed the wound. It was painful and bled freely, but it was not
The Young Forester |
