| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson: And, above all, it is here that your overwalker fails of
comprehension. His heart rises against those who drink their
curacoa in liqueur glasses, when he himself can swill it in a
brown john. He will not believe that the flavour is more
delicate in the smaller dose. He will not believe that to
walk this unconscionable distance is merely to stupefy and
brutalise himself, and come to his inn, at night, with a sort
of frost on his five wits, and a starless night of darkness in
his spirit. Not for him the mild luminous evening of the
temperate walker! He has nothing left of man but a physical
need for bedtime and a double nightcap; and even his pipe, if
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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 Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: tools? A coaster boat - a liddle box o' walty plankin' an' some few
fathom feeble rope held together an' made able by him sole. He
drawed our spirits up In our bodies same as a chimney-towel
draws a fire. 'Twas in him, and it comed out all times and shapes.'
'I wonder did he ever 'magine what he was going to be? Tell
himself stories about it?' said Dan with a flush.
'I expect so. We mostly do - even when we're grown. But bein'
Frankie, he took good care to find out beforehand what his
fortune might be. Had I rightly ought to tell 'em this piece?'
Simon turned to Puck, who nodded.
'My Mother, she was just a fair woman, but my Aunt, her
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