| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: mounting, rode out into the desert toward the DOUAR of
Sheik Kadour ben Saden.
No sign of pursuit developed, and they came in safety
about nine o'clock to their destination. The sheik had but
just returned. He was frantic with grief at the absence of
his daughter, whom he thought had been again abducted by
the marauders. With fifty men he was already mounted to go
in search of her when the two rode into the DOUAR.
His joy at the safe return of his daughter was only equaled
by his gratitude to Tarzan for bringing her safely to him
through the dangers of the night, and his thankfulness that
The Return of Tarzan |
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 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: she would say, "to get a nurse for nothing by marrying me!"
Jude was absolutely indifferent to what she said, and indeed,
often regarded her abuse in a humorous light. Sometimes his
mood was more earnest, and as he lay he often rambled on upon
the defeat of his early aims.
"Every man has some little power in some one direction,"
he would say. "I was never really stout enough for the stone trade,
particularly the fixing. Moving the blocks always used to strain me,
and standing the trying draughts in buildings before the windows are
in always gave me colds, and I think that began the mischief inside.
But I felt I could do one thing if I had the opportunity.
Jude the Obscure |
