| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: within excitement; above all a conscious joy in testing him with
chances he didn't take. She had an intense desire he should know
the type she really conformed to without her doing anything so low
as tell him, and he had surely begun to know it from the moment he
didn't seize the opportunities into which a common man would
promptly have blundered. These were on the mere awkward surface,
and THEIR relation was beautiful behind and below them. She had
questioned so little on the way what they might be doing that as
soon as they were seated she took straight hold of it. Her hours,
her confinement, the many conditions of service in the post-office,
had--with a glance at his own postal resources and alternatives--
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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 Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "It will make no difference," she insisted. "If they find us
together they will slay us both."
"Then they won't find us together," announced Bradley decisively.
"You stay right here--you won't be any worse off than before I
came--and I'll get as far as I can and account for as many of the
beggars as possible before they get me. Good-bye! You're a mighty
decent little girl. I wish that I might have helped you."
"No," she cried. "Do not leave me. I would rather die. I had
hoped and hoped to find some way to return to my own country.
I wanted to go back to An-Tak, who must be very lonely without me;
but I know that it can never be. It is difficult to kill hope,
Out of Time's Abyss |
