| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells: marking a day. I supposed the laboratory had been destroyed and
I had come into the open air. I had a dim impression of
scaffolding, but I was already going too fast to be conscious of
any moving things. The slowest snail that ever crawled dashed by
too fast for me. The twinkling succession of darkness and light
was excessively painful to the eye. Then, in the intermittent
darknesses, I saw the moon spinning swiftly through her quarters
from new to full, and had a faint glimpse of the circling stars.
Presently, as I went on, still gaining velocity, the palpitation
of night and day merged into one continuous greyness; the sky
took on a wonderful deepness of blue, a splendid luminous color
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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 Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber: placid, and less and less understanding of what those
komisch medical journals have to say so often about her
husband who is always discovering things. And you will
live happily ever after--"
A hand gripped my shoulder. I looked up, startled,
into two blue eyes blazing down into mine. Von Gerhard's
face was a painful red. I think that the hand on my
shoulder even shook me a little, there on that bleak and
deserted lake drive. I tried to wrench my shoulder free
with a jerk.
"You are hurting me!" I cried.
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