| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: time to make the attempt. Are you watched--kept prisoner?"
"No. I could have run off lots of times. But I was afraid. I'd
only have fallen into worse hands. Euchre has told me that.
Mrs. Bland beats me, half starves me, but she has kept me from
her husband and these other dogs. She's been as good as that,
and I'm grateful. She hasn't done it for love of me, though.
She always hated me. And lately she's growing jealous. There
was' a man came here by the name of Spence--so he called
himself. He tried to be kind to me. But she wouldn't let him.
She was in love with him. She's a bad woman. Bland finally shot
Spence, and that ended that. She's been jealous ever since. I
The Lone Star Ranger |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: "I think you might have asked for it," says
some one.
CHAPTER VI
I looks up, and that was how I got ac-
quainted with Martha. She was eating
one herself, setting up in the tree like a boy.
In her lap was a book she had been reading. She
was leaning back into the fork two limbs made so
as not to tumble.
"Well," I says, "can I have one?"
"You've eaten it already," she says, "so there
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Koran: it for a little price, they shall eat nothing in their bellies save
fire; and God will not speak to them on the day of resurrection, nor
will He purify them, but for them is grievous woe.
They who sell guidance for error, and pardon for torment, how
patient must they be of fire!
That (is), because God has revealed the Book with truth, and
verily those who disagree about the Book are in a wide schism.
Righteousness is not that ye turn your faces towards the east or the
west, but righteousness is, one who believes in God, and the last day,
and the angels, and the Book, and the prophets, and who gives wealth
for His love to kindred, and orphans, and the poor, and the son of the
The Koran |
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 Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: "She can work," replied Carley, bluntly.
"Oh yes, she can, but she doesn't," went on Eleanor. "You don't work. I
never did. We both hated the idea. You're calling spades spades, Carley,
but you seem to be riding a morbid, impractical thesis. Well, our young
American girl or bride goes in for being rushed or she goes in for fads,
the ultra stuff you mentioned. New York City gets all the great artists,
lecturers, and surely the great fakirs. The New York women support them.
The men laugh, but they furnish the money. They take the women to the
theaters, but they cut out the reception to a Polish princess, a lecture by
an Indian magician and mystic, or a benefit luncheon for a Home for
Friendless Cats. The truth is most of our young girls or brides have a
The Call of the Canyon |
