The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: And Squealer, who happened to be passing at this moment, attended by two
or three dogs, was able to put the whole matter in its proper perspective.
"You have heard then, comrades," he said, "that we pigs now sleep in the
beds of the farmhouse? And why not? You did not suppose, surely, that
there was ever a ruling against beds? A bed merely means a place to sleep
in. A pile of straw in a stall is a bed, properly regarded. The rule was
against sheets, which are a human invention. We have removed the sheets
from the farmhouse beds, and sleep between blankets. And very comfortable
beds they are too! But not more comfortable than we need, I can tell you,
comrades, with all the brainwork we have to do nowadays. You would not rob
us of our repose, would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to
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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 Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to fly away with the white girl never to return, and to put so
great a distance between himself and Naratu that the latter
never could find him again; but it was this very thing that
was in the black's mind although not even his own warriors
guessed it. He had told them that he would take the captive
to a sultan of the north and there obtain a great price for her
and that when he returned they should have some of the spoils.
These things Tarzan did not know. All he knew was what
he saw -- a Negro attempting to fly away with a white girl.
Already the machine was slowly leaving the ground. In a
moment more it would rise swiftly out of reach. At first Tar-
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