| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from King James Bible: side chambers that were within.
EZE 41:10 And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits
round about the house on every side.
EZE 41:11 And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that
was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south:
and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.
EZE 41:12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the
end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the
building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof
ninety cubits.
EZE 41:13 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: nutriments and rags having been at least four times that value.
I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I
hope will not be liable to the least objection.
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance
in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year
old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether
stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it
will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust.
I do therefore humbly offer it to publick consideration, that of
the hundred and twenty thousand children, already computed,
twenty thousand may be reserved for breed, whereof only one
A Modest Proposal |
