| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: at this point, the labour of the rancher ended. Here, at the lip
of the chute, he parted company with his grain, and from here the
wheat streamed forth to feed the world. The yawning mouths of
the sacks might well stand for the unnumbered mouths of the
People, all agape for food; and here, into these sacks, at first
so lean. so flaccid, attenuated like starved stomachs, rushed
the living stream of food, insistent, interminable, filling the
empty, fattening the shrivelled, making it sleek and heavy and
solid.
Half an hour later, the harvester stopped again. The men on the
sacking platform had used up all the sacks. But S. Behrman's
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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 Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum: sights and to be every bit as stern and severe as a mortal knight
would have been.
Throwing down his staff he ran to the cave again, and stepping between
the sword points he approached the pile of casks and held out his arms
to the boy who was perched upon the top.
"The thieves are conquered," he cried. "Jump down!"
"I won't," said the boy.
"Why not?" inquired the prince.
"Can't you see I'm very miserable?" asked the boy, in return;
"don't you understand that every minute I expect to fall upon
those sword points?"
The Enchanted Island of Yew |
