| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Koran: not believers.
And when they are called to God and His Apostle to judge between
them, lo! a sect of them do turn aside. But had the right been on
their side they would have come to him submissively enough.
Is there a sickness in their hearts, or do they doubt, or do they
fear lest God and His Apostle should deal unfairly by them?- Nay, it
is they who are unjust.
The speech of the believers, when they are called to God and His
Apostle to judge between them, is only to say, 'We hear and we
obey;' and these it is who are the prosperous, for whoso obeys God and
His Apostle and dreads God and fears Him, these it is who are the
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Heart of the West by O. Henry: and curious, he can acquire the general rudiments of the sex. One
lesson I picked up was when I was working the West with a line of
Brazilian diamonds and a patent fire kindler just after my trip from
Savannah down through the cotton belt with Dalby's Anti-explosive Lamp
Oil Powder. 'Twas when the Oklahoma country was in first bloom.
Guthrie was rising in the middle of it like a lump of self-raising
dough. It was a boom town of the regular kind--you stood in line to
get a chance to wash your face; if you ate over ten minutes you had a
lodging bill added on; if you slept on a plank at night they charged
it to you as board the next morning.
"By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering
Heart of the West |
