| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: place. It would dishonor me to give up my art by losing the opinion of
the most perfect epicures, who are certainly to be found in Paris."
When Andrea arrived at Gambara's lodgings, the musician rose to
welcome him.
"My generous friend," said he, with the utmost frankness, "you either
took advantage, last evening, of the weakness of my brain to make a
fool of me, or else your brain is no more capable of standing the test
of the heady liquors of our native Latium, than mine is. I will assume
this latter hypothesis; I would rather doubt your digestion than your
heart. Be this as it may, henceforth I drink no more wine--for ever.
The abuse of good liquor last evening led me into much guilty folly.
Gambara |
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 Dracula by Bram Stoker: even if there are monsters in it.
Before I left him I remembered what Jonathan put in his diary
of the Professor's perturbation at reading something in an evening
paper at the station at Exeter, so, seeing that Dr. Seward keeps
his newspapers, I borrowed the files of `The Westminster Gazette'
and `The Pall Mall Gazette' and took them to my room.
I remember how much the `Dailygraph' and `The Whitby Gazette',
of which I had made cuttings, had helped us to understand
the terrible events at Whitby when Count Dracula landed,
so I shall look through the evening papers since then,
and perhaps I shall get some new light. I am not sleepy,
Dracula |
