| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: resist the temptation to turn and fling a parting taunt at Tarzan.
"Sleep well, monsieur," he said, "and do not forget to pray well,
for when you die tomorrow it will be in such agony that you will
be unable to pray for blaspheming."
No one had bothered to bring Tarzan either food or water since
noon, and consequently he suffered considerably from thirst.
He wondered if it would be worth while to ask his
guard for water, but after making two or three requests
without receiving any response, he decided that it would not.
Far up in the mountains he heard a lion roar. How much
safer one was, he soliloquized, in the haunts of wild beasts
The Return of Tarzan |
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 Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: head, he poured into it the contents of his bag. The woman tied it up in
sullen silence.
"You must try and get to the next farm," said the German.
The woman shook her head; she would sleep in the field.
The German reflected. Kaffer women were accustomed to sleep in the open
air; but then, the child was small, and after so hot a day the night might
be chilly. That she would creep back to the huts at the homestead when the
darkness favoured her, the German's sagacity did not make evident to him.
He took off the old brown salt-and-pepper coat, and held it out to her.
The woman received it in silence, and laid it across her knee. "With that
they will sleep warmly; not so bad. Ha, ha!" said the German. And he rode
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