| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: OEDIPUS
Well, let him go, no matter what it cost me,
Or certain death or shameful banishment,
For your sake I relent, not his; and him,
Where'er he be, my heart shall still abhor.
CREON
Thou art as sullen in thy yielding mood
As in thine anger thou wast truculent.
Such tempers justly plague themselves the most.
OEDIPUS
Leave me in peace and get thee gone.
 Oedipus Trilogy |
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 Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: "Whatever injuries you may have sustained in the world, you are
incapable of revenging them on one who never wronged you,
nor,wilfully, any other."
"Ay, but, maiden," he continued, his dark eyes flashing with an
expression of malignity which communicated itself to his wild and
distorted features, "revenge is the hungry wolf, which asks only
to tear flesh and lap blood. Think you the lamb's plea of
innocence would be listened to by him?"
"Man!" said Isabella, rising, and expressing herself with much
dignity, "I fear not the horrible ideas with which you would
impress me. I cast them from me with disdain. Be you mortal or
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