| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: a delicious, clashing laugh. "You think I am half a man?"
"Answer my question."
"I'm a woman through and through, Maskull - to the marrowbone. But
that's not to say I have never absorbed males."
"And that means ..
"New strings for my harp, Maskull. A wider range of passions, a
stormier heart ..."
"For you, yes - But for them ... ?"
"I don't know. The victims don't describe their experiences.
Probably unhappiness of some sort - if they still know anything."
"This is a fearful business!" he exclaimed, regarding her gloomily.
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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 Lady Susan by Jane Austen: between us it would ill suit the feelings of either to remain longer in the
same house: so very great, so total a change from the intimacy of
friendship must render any future intercourse the severest punishment; and
your resolution of quitting Churchhill is undoubtedly in unison with our
situation, and with those lively feelings which I know you to possess. But,
at the same time, it is not for me to suffer such a sacrifice as it must be
to leave relations to whom you are so much attached, and are so dear. My
remaining here cannot give that pleasure to Mr. and Mrs. Vernon which your
society must; and my visit has already perhaps been too long. My removal,
therefore, which must, at any rate, take place soon, may, with perfect
convenience, be hastened; and I make it my particular request that I may
Lady Susan |
