| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: And those who were mighty in war, and those renowned for an art
Sat in their stated seats and talked of the morrow apart.
II. THE LOVERS
HARK! away in the woods - for the ears of love are sharp -
Stealthily, quietly touched, the note of the one-stringed harp. (4)
In the lighted house of her father, why should Taheia start?
Taheia heavy of hair, Taheia tender of heart,
Taheia the well-descended, a bountiful dealer in love,
Nimble of foot like the deer, and kind of eye like the dove?
Sly and shy as a cat, with never a change of face,
Taheia slips to the door, like one that would breathe a space;
Ballads |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: out of it. He made a big plantation out of a wilderness. And when
the war come on and his money begun to go, he warn't scared to be
pore again. And when the Yankees come through Tara and might of
burnt him out or killed him, he warn't fazed a bit and he warn't
licked neither. He just planted his front feet and stood his
ground. That's why I say he had our good points. There ain't
nothin' FROM THE OUTSIDE can lick any of us.
"But he had our failin's too, 'cause he could be licked from the
inside. I mean to say that what the whole world couldn't do, his
own heart could. When Mrs. O'Hara died, his heart died too and he
was licked. And what we seen walking 'round here warn't him."
Gone With the Wind |
| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum: any nice things to eat."
"You are right," said Tik-Tok. "I have been in
that coun-try, and it is a wilder-ness."
"It is the country of the nomes," explained the
Wizard, "who are so mischievous that no one cares
to live near them. I'm afraid Shaggy and his
friends will endure many hardships before they get
out of that rocky place, unless--"
He turned to Ozma and smiled.
"Unless I ask you to transport them all here?"
she asked.
Tik-Tok of Oz |
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 Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard: Wilt thou throw thyself to Fortune and come, or fearest thou,
Umslopogaas?'
The great man smiled. 'Thou art not altogether right, Macumazahn,'
he said; 'I have plotted in my time, but it was not ambition
that led me to my fall; but, shame on me that I should have to
say it, a fair woman's face. Let it pass. So we are going to
see something like the old times again, Macumazahn, when we fought
and hunted in Zululand? Ay, I will come. Come life, come death,
what care I, so that the blows fall fast and the blood runs red?
I grow old, I grow old, and I have not fought enough! And yet
am I a warrior among warriors; see my scars' -- and he pointed
Allan Quatermain |
