| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: Scarlett, you just remember this, when Miss Suellen and I are
married, there'll always be a place for you under our roof and for
Wade Hampton too."
Now was the time! Surely the saints and angels watched over her to
give her such a Heaven-sent opportunity. She managed to look very
startled and embarrassed and opened her mouth as if to speak
quickly and then shut it with a pop.
"Don't tell me you didn't know I was to be your brother-in-law this
spring," he said with nervous jocularity.
And then, seeing her eyes fill up with tears, he questioned in
alarm: "What's the matter? Miss Sue's not ill, is she?"
Gone With the Wind |
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 Glaucus/The Wonders of the Shore by Charles Kingsley: wanderings. The sun sank lower and lower behind the deer-park
point; the white stair of houses up the glen was wrapped every
moment deeper and deeper in hazy smoke and shade, as the light
faded; the evening fires were lighted one by one; the soft murmur
of the waterfall, and the pleasant laugh of children, and the
splash of homeward oars, came clearer and clearer to the ear at
every stroke: and as we rowed on, arose the recollection of many a
brave and wise friend, whose lot was cast in no such western
paradise, but rather in the infernos of this sinful earth, toiling
even then amid the festering alleys of Bermondsey and Bethnal
Green, to palliate death and misery which they had vainly laboured
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