| 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: hers was a mansion.
No, it did not occur to Melanie that people rallied round her as
round a worn and loved standard. And so she was both astounded and
embarrassed when Dr. Meade, after a pleasant evening at her house
where he acquitted himself nobly in reading the part of Macbeth,
kissed her hand and made observations in the voice he once used in
speaking of Our Glorious Cause.
"My dear Miss Melly, it is always a privilege and a pleasure to be
in your home, for you--and ladies like you--are the hearts of all
of us, all that we have left. They have taken the flower of our
manhood and the laughter of our young women. They have broken our
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 The Jolly Corner by Henry James: of the second structure, the mere number in its long row, having
within a twelvemonth fallen in, renovation at a high advance had
proved beautifully possible.
These were items of property indeed, but he had found himself since
his arrival distinguishing more than ever between them. The house
within the street, two bristling blocks westward, was already in
course of reconstruction as a tall mass of flats; he had acceded,
some time before, to overtures for this conversion - in which, now
that it was going forward, it had been not the least of his
astonishments to find himself able, on the spot, and though without
a previous ounce of such experience, to participate with a certain
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