| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: to pay for cigars and such petty pleasures. It was in my second
season that the tide turned. Of course you have heard of my
marriage?"
"No, I never heard anything about it."
"Yes, I married, Villiers. I met a girl, a girl of the
most wonderful and most strange beauty, at the house of some
people whom I knew. I cannot tell you her age; I never knew it,
but, so far as I can guess, I should think she must have been
about nineteen when I made her acquaintance. My friends had
come to know her at Florence; she told them she was an orphan,
the child of an English father and an Italian mother, and she
The Great God Pan |
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 Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: Elliott, though requested to speak, maintained an ominous silence.
Wingenund strode with thoughtful mien before his council. He had heard all his
wise chiefs and his fiery warriors. Supreme was his power. Freedom or death
for the captives awaited the wave of his hand. His impassive face gave not the
slightest inkling of what to expect Therefore the prisoners were forced to
stand there with throbbing hearts while the chieftain waited the customary
dignified interval before addressing the council.
"Wingenund has heard the Delaware wise men and warriors. The white Indian
opens not his lips; his silence broods evil for the palefaces. Pipe wants the
blood of the white men; the Shawnee chief demands the stake. Wingenund says
free the white father who harms no Indian. Wingenund hears no evil in the
The Spirit of the Border |
