| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare: DAUGHTER.
As ever you heard, but say nothing.
1. FRIEND.
No.
DAUGHTER.
They come from all parts of the Dukedome to him;
Ile warrant ye, he had not so few last night
As twenty to dispatch: hee'l tickl't up
In two howres, if his hand be in.
IAILOR.
She's lost
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: tree. . . When he reached the orchard the sun
was hanging low over the wheatfield. Long
fingers of light reached through the apple
branches as through a net; the orchard was rid-
dled and shot with gold; light was the reality,
the trees were merely interferences that reflected
and refracted light. Emil went softly down
between the cherry trees toward the wheatfield.
When he came to the corner, he stopped short
and put his hand over his mouth. Marie was
lying on her side under the white mulberry tree,
O Pioneers! |
| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: the darkness, in the secret hour, when we
awoke in the night and there were no
brothers around us, but only their shapes
in the beds and their snores, we closed our
eyes, and we held our lips shut, and we
stopped our breath, that no shudder might
let our brothers see or hear or guess,
and we thought that we wished to be sent
to the Home of the Scholars when our time
would come.
All the great modern inventions come
Anthem |
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 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: I dare say."
"No, THAT he is not. He is of no profession at all."
"Margaret," said Marianne with great warmth,
"you know that all this is an invention of your own,
and that there is no such person in existence."
"Well, then, he is lately dead, Marianne, for I
am sure there was such a man once, and his name begins
with an F."
Most grateful did Elinor feel to Lady Middleton
for observing, at this moment, "that it rained very hard,"
though she believed the interruption to proceed less from
Sense and Sensibility |
