| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: or stay, that the boarders, in their joy at being quit of Mlle.
Michonneau, burst out laughing at the sight of him.
"Hist!--st!--st! Poiret," shouted the painter. "Hallo! I say,
Poiret, hallo!" The employe from the Museum began to sing:
"Partant pour la Syrie,
Le jeune et beau Dunois . . ."
"Get along with you; you must be dying to go, trahit sua quemque
voluptas!" said Bianchon.
"Every one to his taste--free rendering from Virgil," said the
tutor.
Mlle. Michonneau made a movement as if to take Poiret's arm, with
Father Goriot |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: game must presently end, and an opportunity which might never
recur pass beyond recall. He determined to tell her without
preface that he adored her, but when he opened his lips a
question came forth of its own accord relating to the Persian way
of playing billiards. Gertrude had never been in Persia, but had
seen some Eastern billiard cues in the India museum. Were not the
Hindoos wonderful people for filigree work, and carpets, and such
things? Did he not think thc crookedness of their carpet patterns
a blemish? Some people pretended to admire them, but was not that
all nonsense? Was not the modern polished floor, with a rug in
the middle, much superior to the old carpet fitted into the
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