| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: his bit of the pattern and passed on, to use his blow-pipe, his
spirit lamp and his chemicals in some prospector's paradise among
the mountains.
When Dick heard somewhere ahead the creaking of saddle leather and
the rattle of harness he drew aside on the trail and waited. He
had lost all caution in the grip of his craving, and all fear. A
line of loaded burros rounded a point ahead and came toward him,
picking their way delicately with small deliberate feet and walking
on the outer edge of the trail, after the way of pack animals the
world over. Behind them was a horseman, rifle in the scabbard on
his saddle and spurs jingling. Dick watched him with thirsty,
The Breaking Point |
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 Droll Stories, V. 1 by Honore de Balzac: more learned and less stupid than the savans make him out."
Thereupon the two other nephews entered, and perceiving from the voice
of the canon that he did not dislike Chiquon very much, and that the
jeremiads which he had made concerning him were simple tricks to
disguise the affection which he bore him, looked at each other in
great astonishment.
Then, seeing their uncle laughing, they said to him--
"If you will make a will, to whom will you leave the house?
"To Chiquon."
"And the quit rent of the Rue St. Denys?"
"To Chiquon."
Droll Stories, V. 1 |
