| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: join the line.
It fled along in a noiseless roll; but on entering the
avenue one of the dark bays snorted, arching his neck
and shying against the steel-tipped pole; a flake of
foam fell from the bit upon the point of a satiny shoul-
der, and the dusky face of the coachman leaned for-
ward at once over the hands taking a fresh grip of the
reins. It was a long dark-green landau, having a digni-
fied and buoyant motion between the sharply curved
C-springs, and a sort of strictly official majesty in its
supreme elegance. It seemed more roomy than is usual,
End of the Tether |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: is not all. He says that when he dwelt a hostage at the court of
the Sons of Wisdom he and the divine Lady, the daughter of the
Lord Oro, and his only living child, learned to love each other.
He demands, and the Nations demand, that she shall be given to
him to wife, that in a day to come he may rule with her and their
children after them.
"See!" went on Yva in her chanting, dreamy voice, "the Lord Oro
asks his daughter if this be true. She says," here the real Yva
at my side turned and looked me straight in the eyes, "that it is
true; that she loves the Prince of the Nations and that if she
lives a million years she will wed no other man, since she who is
When the World Shook |
