| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: it. "I know too much about a certain person now not to put it to
you--excuse my being so lurid--that it's quite worth your while to
buy me off. Come, therefore; buy me!" There was a point indeed at
which such flights had to drop again--the point of an unreadiness
to name, when it came to that, the purchasing medium. It wouldn't
certainly be anything so gross as money, and the matter accordingly
remained rather vague, all the more that SHE was not a bad girl.
It wasn't for any such reason as might have aggravated a mere minx
that she often hoped he would again bring Cissy. The difficulty of
this, however, was constantly present to her, for the kind of
communion to which Cocker's so richly ministered rested on the fact
|
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 Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell
off in front; and whenever it went on again (which it generally
did rather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on
pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling
off sideways; and as he generally did this on the side on which
Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not
to walk QUITE close to the horse.
`I'm afraid you've not had much practice in riding,' she
ventured to say, as she was helping him up from his fifth tumble.
The Knight looked very much surprised, and a little offended at
the remark. `What makes you say that?' he asked, as he scrambled
Through the Looking-Glass |
