| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: Fletcher ran at Duane with hands aloft.
"Hit the trail, you liar, or you'll hev to kill me!" he yelled.
With hands still up, he shouldered and bodied Duane out of the
room.
Duane leaped on his horse, spurred, and plunged away.
CHAPTER XXIII
Duane returned to Fairdale and camped in the mesquite till the
twenty-third of the month. The few days seemed endless. All he
could think of was that the hour in which he must disgrace Ray
Longstreth was slowly but inexorably coming. In that waiting
time he learned what love was and also duty. When the day at
 The Lone Star Ranger |
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 The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Now that it was too late, he regretted it. For now Meriem,
still living, had been revealed to him in a guise of progress and
advancement that had carried her completely out of his life.
Death itself could not have further removed her from him.
In her new world she loved a man of her own kind. And Korak
knew that it was right. She was not for him--not for the naked,
savage ape. No, she was not for him; but he still was hers. If he
could not have her and happiness, he would at least do all that
lay in his power to assure happiness to her. He would follow the
young Englishman. In the first place he would know that he
meant Meriem no harm, and after that, though jealously
 The Son of Tarzan |