| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: back on his head, and the Wizard blew a beautiful bubble all around him.
A minute later it had mounted into the sky, sailing toward the west,
and the last they saw of Button-Bright he was still sitting in the
middle of the shining globe and waving his sailor hat at those below.
"Will you ride in a bubble, or shall I send you and Toto home by means
of the Magic Belt?" the Princess asked Dorothy.
"Guess I'll use the Belt," replied the little girl. "I'm sort of
'fraid of those bubbles."
"Bow-wow!" said Toto, approvingly. He loved to bark at the bubbles as
they sailed away, but he didn't care to ride in one.
Santa Claus decided to go next. He thanked Ozma for her hospitality
The Road to Oz |
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 Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: There lay his fiddle, just as he had left it. He picked it up and
ran his fingers over the strings--trum, twang! Then he got to
his feet and brushed the dirt and grass from his knees. He tucked
his fiddle under his arm, and off he stepped upon the way he had
been going at first.
"Just to think!" said he, "I would either have been the richest
man in the world, or else I would have been a king, if it had not
been for Ill-Luck."
And that is the way we all of us talk.
Dr. Faustus had sat all the while neither drinking ale nor
smoking tobacco, but with his hands folded, and in silence. "I
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