| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Sab Than lay dead beside his father, and the corpses of
the flower of Zodangan nobility and chivalry covered the
floor of the bloody shambles.
My first thought when the battle was over was for Kantos
Kan, and leaving Dejah Thoris in charge of Tars Tarkas I took
a dozen warriors and hastened to the dungeons beneath the
palace. The jailers had all left to join the fighters in the
throne room, so we searched the labyrinthine prison without
opposition.
I called Kantos Kan's name aloud in each new corridor
and compartment, and finally I was rewarded by hearing a
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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 Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: attending his master's wound to absent himself from the battle;
and put the poor knight to a great deal of unnecessary pain
by making as long a business as possible of extracting the arrow,
which he had not accomplished when Matilda, approaching, extracted it
with great facility, and bound up the wound with her scarf,
saying, "I reclaim my arrow, sir knight, which struck where I
aimed it, to admonish you to desist from your enterprise.
I could as easily have lodged it in your heart."
"It did not need," said the knight, with rueful gallantry;
"you have lodged one there already."
"If you mean to say that you love me," said Matilda, "it is more than I
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