| 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: or before them, for he is really well educated and has
exquisite manners, but he found out that it amused me
to hear him talk American slang,and whenever I was present,
and there was no one to be shocked, he said such funny things.
I am afraid, my dear, he has to invent it all, for it fits exactly
into whatever else he has to say. But this is a way slang has.
I do not know myself if I shall ever speak slang.
I do not know if Arthur likes it, as I have never heard him
use any as yet.
Well, Mr. Morris sat down beside me and looked as happy and jolly
as he could, but I could see all the same that he was very nervous.
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 Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the two and swung quickly to the branch of the tree above.
Here he gathered in the slack of the rope and, bracing him-
self against the bole of the tree, pulled steadily upward. Slowly
the stakes rose from the trench in which they were imbedded
and with them rose Numa's suspicion and growling.
Was this some new encroachment upon his rights and his
liberties? He was puzzled and, like all lions, being short of
temper, he was irritated. He had not minded it when the Tar-
mangani squatted upon the verge of the pit and looked down
upon him, for had not this Tarmangani fed him? But now
something else was afoot and the suspicion of the wild beast
Tarzan the Untamed |
