| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: in the 'Are an' 'Ounds, in Pincher's Alley, as 'ow he an'
his mate 'ad 'ad a rare dusty job in a old 'ouse at Purfleet.
There ain't a many such jobs as this 'ere, an' I'm thinkin'
that maybe Sam Bloxam could tell ye summut."
I asked if he could tell me where to find him. I told him that if he could
get me the address it would be worth another half sovereign to him.
So he gulped down the rest of his tea and stood up, saying that he was
going to begin the search then and there.
At the door he stopped, and said, "Look 'ere, guv'nor, there ain't
no sense in me a keepin' you 'ere. I may find Sam soon, or I mayn't,
but anyhow he ain't like to be in a way to tell ye much tonight.
Dracula |
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 Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome: quite unable to speak to such an audience: but evidently
a much bigger man than he looked, since his pamphlets
were written before the experience of the Russian
Revolution of 1905. Some days afterwards I noticed that
Lenin had introduced a few phrases of De Leon, as if to do
honour to his memory, into the draft for the new programme
of the Communist party.
Talking of the lies that are told about Russia, he said it was
interesting to notice that they were mostly perversions of
truth and not pure inventions, and gave as an example the
recent story that he had recanted. "Do you know the origin
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