| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: "She's fainted," said Aggie, and stepping from in front of the
young wife, she pointed toward the couch.
"Oh, my darling!" cried Alfred, with deep concern as he rushed to
Zoie and began frantically patting her hands. "My poor
frightened darling!" Then he turned to the officer, his sense of
injury welling high within him, "You see what these people have
done to my wife? She's fainted." Ignoring the uncomplimentary
remarks of O'Flarety, he again bent over Zoie.
"Rouse yourself, my dear," he begged of her. "Look at me," he
pleaded. "Your babies are safe."
"HER babies!" snorted O'Flarety, unable longer to control his
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: hers she suffered it; then as he drove away we started to walk
about and talk. We had talked, heaven knows, enough before, but
this was a wondrous lift. We pictured the whole scene at Rapallo,
where he would have written, mentioning my name, for permission to
call; that is I pictured it, having more material than my
companion, whom I felt hang on my lips as we stopped on purpose
before shop-windows we didn't look into. About one thing we were
clear: if he was staying on for fuller communication we should at
least have a letter from him that would help us through the dregs
of delay. We understood his staying on, and yet each of us saw, I
think, that the other hated it. The letter we were clear about
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: The daring escalade,
The plunging ships, the bleating sheep,
The happy children ankle-deep
And laughing as they wade:
All these are vanished clean away,
And the old manse is changed to-day;
It wears an altered face
And shields a stranger race.
The river, on from mill to mill,
Flows past our childhood's garden still;
But ah! we children never more
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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 Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: Escape was now in his grasp. He felt it. And with that in his
mind he waited, strong as steel in his conviction, capable of
withstanding any strain endurable by the human frame.
The wind blew in puffs, grew wilder, and roared through the
willows, carrying bright sparks upward. Thunder rolled down
over the river, and lightning began to flash. Then the rain
fell in heavy sheets, but not steadily. The flashes of
lightning and the broad flares played so incessantly that Duane
could not trust himself out on the open river. Certainly the
storm rather increased the watchfulness of the men on the
bluff. He knew how to wait, and he waited, grimly standing pain
The Lone Star Ranger |
