| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Koran: Against those of your women who commit adultery, call witnesses four
in number from among yourselves; and if these bear witness, then
keep the women in houses until death release them, or God shall make
for them a way.
And if two of you commit it, then hurt them both; but if they turn
again and amend, leave them alone, verily, God is easily turned,
compassionate.
God is only bound to turn again towards those who do evil through
ignorance and then turn again. Surely, these will God turn again to,
for God is knowing, wise. His turning again is not for those who do
evil, until, when death comes before one of them, he says, 'Now I turn
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: it."
"How?"
"Because this is Crystalman's world, and Surtur's world is something
quite differently
"That's queer, then," said Polecrab.
"Since I've come out of that forest," proceeded Maskull, talking half
to himself, "a change has come over me, and I see things differently.
Everything here looks much more solid and real in my eyes than in
other places so much so that I can't entertain the least doubt of its
existence. It not only looks real, it is real - and on that I would
stake my life.... But at the same time that it's real, it is false."
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Moby Dick by Herman Melville: and by the beaches of unrecorded, javelin islands, battled with
virgin wonders and terrors that Cook with all his marines and
muskets would not willingly have dared. All that is made such a
flourish of in the old South Sea Voyages, those things were but the
life-time commonplaces of our heroic Nantucketers. Often,
adventures which Vancouver dedicates three chapters to, these men
accounted unworthy of being set down in the ship's common log. Ah,
the world! Oh, the world!
Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn, no commerce but colonial,
scarcely any intercourse but colonial, was carried on between Europe
and the long line of the opulent Spanish provinces on the Pacific
Moby Dick |
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 Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: game Tarzan knew the name of but one of the other players.
It was he who sat opposite the new player, Count Raoul
de Coude, whom at over-attentive steward had pointed out as
one of the celebrities of the passage, describing him as a
man high in the official family of the French minister of war.
Suddenly Tarzan's attention was riveted upon the picture
in the glass. The other swarthy plotter had entered, and was
standing behind the count's chair. Tarzan saw him turn and
glance furtively about the room, but his eyes did not rest for
a sufficient time upon the mirror to note the reflection of
Tarzan's watchful eyes. Stealthily the man withdrew something
The Return of Tarzan |
