| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: two days, but Ah hear dem talk 'bout you. An' yesterday w'en you
druv by an' dem trashy black wenches holler at you, Ah recernize
you but you went by so fas' Ah couldn' ketch you. But Ah sho tan
de hides of dem niggers! Ah sho did. Ain' you notice dar ain'
none of dem roun' hyah terday?"
"I did notice and I certainly thank you, Sam. Well, how would you
like to be my carriage man?"
"Miss Scarlett, thankee, Ma'm, but Ah specs Ah better go ter Tara."
Big Sam looked down and his bare toe traced aimless marks in the
road. There was a furtive uneasiness about him.
"Now, why? I'll pay you good wages. You must stay with me."
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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 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: Michaelis was astonished; they had been neighbors for four years, and
Wilson had never seemed faintly capable of such a statement. Generally
he was one of these worn-out men: when he wasn't working, he sat on a
chair in the doorway and stared at the people and the cars that passed
along the road. When any one spoke to him he invariably laughed in an
agreeable, colorless way. He was his wife's man and not his own.
So naturally Michaelis tried to find out what had happened, but Wilson
wouldn't say a word--instead he began to throw curious, suspicious
glances at his visitor and ask him what he'd been doing at certain
times on certain days. Just as the latter was getting uneasy, some
workmen came past the door bound for his restaurant, and Michaelis took
The Great Gatsby |
