| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: nothing.
Contented with this discovery, I came back to my raft, and fell to
work to bring my cargo on shore, which took me up the rest of that
day. What to do with myself at night I knew not, nor indeed where
to rest, for I was afraid to lie down on the ground, not knowing
but some wild beast might devour me, though, as I afterwards found,
there was really no need for those fears.
However, as well as I could, I barricaded myself round with the
chest and boards that I had brought on shore, and made a kind of
hut for that night's lodging. As for food, I yet saw not which way
to supply myself, except that I had seen two or three creatures
Robinson Crusoe |
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 Desert Gold by Zane Grey: were covered with luxuriant grass and flowers and different kinds
of trees. Gale's interest led him to ask about fig trees and
pomegranates, and especially about a beautiful specimen that
Belding called palo verde.
Belding explained that the luxuriance of this desert place was
owing to a few springs and the dammed-up waters of the Rio Forlorn.
Before he had come to the oasis it had been inhabited by a Papago
Indian tribe and a few peon families. The oasis lay in an arroyo
a mile wide, and sloped southwest for some ten miles or more.
The river went dry most of the year; but enough water was stored
in flood season to irrigate the gardens and alfalfa fields.
Desert Gold |
