The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: must not spoil the market for the other man.'
'What do you mean?' enquired Pitman. 'What other man? The
inspector of police?'
'Damn the inspector of police!' remarked his companion. 'If you
won't take the short cut and bury this in your back garden, we
must find some one who will bury it in his. We must place the
affair, in short, in the hands of some one with fewer scruples
and more resources.'
'A private detective, perhaps?' suggested Pitman.
'There are times when you fill me with pity,' observed the
lawyer. 'By the way, Pitman,' he added in another key, 'I have
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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 Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: Wakening the appetites of life in some
And to others bringing the Boston Evening Transcript,
I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning
Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld
If the street were time and he at the end of the street,
And I say, "Cousin Harriet, here is the Boston Evening Transcript."
Aunt Helen
Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt,
And lived in a small house near a fashionable square
Cared for by servants to the number of four.
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