| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: heavy tread, bringing with him a smell of
cigar smoke and chill out-of-doors air.
When Alexander reached the library door,
he switched on the lights and stood six feet
and more in the archway, glowing with strength
and cordiality and rugged, blond good looks.
There were other bridge-builders in the
world, certainly, but it was always Alexander's
picture that the Sunday Supplement men wanted,
because he looked as a tamer of rivers
ought to look. Under his tumbled sandy
Alexander's Bridge |
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 Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: guided by the baying of hounds that had treed their quarry.
It wanted only a few moments, however, till Duane could
distinguish the vague forms of the hounds in the gray shadow
below. Still he waited. He had no shots to spare. And he knew
how to treat bloodhounds. Gradually the obscurity lightened,
and at length Duane had good enough sight of the hounds for his
purpose. His first shot killed the huge brute leader of the
pack. Then, with unerring shots, he crippled several others.
That stopped the baying. Piercing howls arose. The pack took
fright and fled, its course easily marked by the howls of the
crippled members. Duane reloaded his gun, and, making certain
The Lone Star Ranger |
