| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: trench timber. The whole knoll, which rose softly on the right of the
riding, was denuded and strangely forlorn. On the crown of the knoll
where the oaks had stood, now was bareness; and from there you could
look out over the trees to the colliery railway, and the new works at
Stacks Gate. Connie had stood and looked, it was a breach in the pure
seclusion of the wood. It let in the world. But she didn't tell
Clifford.
This denuded place always made Clifford curiously angry. He had been
through the war, had seen what it meant. But he didn't get really angry
till he saw this bare hill. He was having it replanted. But it made him
hate Sir Geoffrey.
 Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: bridegroom, free from his duties at Sunk Creek, free to take his
bride wheresoever she might choose to go. And she had chosen.
Those voices of the world had more than angered her; for after
the anger a set purpose was left. Her sister should have the
chance neither to come nor to stay away. Had her mother even
answered the Virginian's letter, there could have been some
relenting. But the poor lady had been inadequate in this, as in
all other searching moments of her life: she had sent
messages,--kind ones, to be sure,--but only messages. If this had
hurt the Virginian, no one knew it in the world, least of all the
girl in whose heart it had left a cold, frozen spot. Not a good
 The Virginian |