| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: their companions that he had been found they ran forwards;
but those who were first to reach the tree stopped suddenly
and shrank back, their eyes rolling fearfully first in one direc-
tion and then in another as though they expected some name-
less horror to leap out upon them.
Nor was their terror without foundation. Impaled upon the
end of a broken branch the head of their companion was
propped behind the tree so that it appeared to be looking out
at them from the opposite side of the bole.
It was then that many wished to turn back, arguing that they
had offended some demon of the wood upon whose preserve
Tarzan the Untamed |
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 Eve and David by Honore de Balzac: He waited.
"M. Petit-Claud," said the Countess, with haughty dignity, "you mean
to be on the side of the Government. Learn that the first principle of
government is this--never to have been in the wrong, and that the
instinct of power and the sense of dignity is even stronger in women
than in governments."
"That is just what I thought, madame," he answered quickly, observing
the Countess meanwhile with attention the more profound because it was
scarcely visible. "Lucien came here in the depths of misery. But if he
must receive an ovation, I can compel him to leave Angouleme by the
means of the ovation itself. His sister and brother-in-law, David
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