| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to
it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in.
At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness
and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap
is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force
them.
With a sudden snap the bleeding desire that had drawn him after her
broke. He had broken it, because it must be so. There must be a coming
together on both sides. And if she wasn't coming to him, he wouldn't
track her down. He mustn't. He must go away, till she came.
He turned slowly, ponderingly, accepting again the isolation. He knew
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: he said. "Eh?"
Captain Armand Jacot flushed to the roots of his close-cropped hair.
Then he went very white and took a half-step toward the Arab.
His fists were clenched. Suddenly he thought better of whatever
impulse was moving him.
"Sergeant!" he called. The non-commissioned officer hurried toward
him, saluting as his heels clicked together before his superior.
"Take this black dog back to his people," he ordered. "See that
they leave at once. Shoot the first man who comes within range
of camp tonight."
Sheik Amor ben Khatour drew himself up to his full height.
The Son of Tarzan |
