| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: for she smiled and beckoned and the men came quickly to the buggy
and frequently stood bareheaded in the rain to talk business with
her.
She was not the only one who had seen the opportunities for making
money out of lumber, but she did not fear her competitors. She
knew with conscious pride in her own smartness that she was the
equal of any of them. She was Gerald's own daughter and the shrewd
trading instinct she had inherited was now sharpened by her needs.
At first the other dealers had laughed at her, laughed with good-
natured contempt at the very idea of a woman in business. But now
they did not laugh. They swore silently as they saw her ride by.
Gone With the Wind |
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 A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: There have been great debates among our physicians as to the
reason of this. Some will have it to be in the nature of the disease,
and that it impresses every one that is seized upon by it with a kind of
a rage, and a hatred against their own kind - as if there was a
malignity not only in the distemper to communicate itself, but in the
very nature of man, prompting him with evil will or
an evil eye, that, as they say in the case of a mad dog, who though the
gentlest creature before of any of his kind, yet then will fly upon and
bite any one that comes next him, and those as soon as any who had
been most observed by him before.
Others placed it to the account of the corruption of human nature,
A Journal of the Plague Year |
