| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: c'etait en 1848, elle s'etait coiffee de travers: je suis bien
heureux de saluer aujourd'hui votre excellence, quand elle a mis
son chapeau droit.' Une fois je le menai voir couronner la Rosiere
de Nanterre. Il y suivit les ceremonies civiles et religieuses; il
y assista au banquet donne par le Maire; il y vit notre de Lesseps,
auquel il porta un toast. Le soir, nous revinmes tard a Paris; il
faisait chaud; nous etions un peu fatigues; nous entrƒmes dans un
des rares cafes encore ouverts. Il devint silencieux. - 'N'etes-
vous pas content de votre journee?' lui dis-je. - 'O, si! mais je
reflechis, et je me dis que vous etes un peuple gai - tous ces
braves gens etaient gais aujourd'hui. C'est une vertu, la gaiete,
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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 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: The very night seemed to know it, and the desolate wind to howl it
in his ear. The dark corners of the streets were full of it. It
grinned at him from the roofs of the houses.
First he came to the Park, whose sombre woodland seemed to
fascinate him. He leaned wearily up against the railings, cooling
his brow against the wet metal, and listening to the tremulous
silence of the trees. 'Murder! murder!' he kept repeating, as
though iteration could dim the horror of the word. The sound of
his own voice made him shudder, yet he almost hoped that Echo might
hear him, and wake the slumbering city from its dreams. He felt a
mad desire to stop the casual passer-by, and tell him everything.
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