| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: sunset lightened the trail, and the descent to the arroyo was swift
and easy. Some of the white horses had come in for water. Blanco
Sol spied Gale and whistled and came pounding toward him. It was
twilight down in the arroyo. Yaqui appeared and began collecting
a bundle of mesquite sticks. Gale hastily put together the things
he needed; and, packing them all in a tarpaulin, he turned to
retrace his steps up the trail.
Darkness was setting in. The trail was narrow, exceedingly steep,
and in some places fronted on precipices. Gale's burden was not
very heavy, but its bulk made it unwieldy, and it was always
overbalancing him or knocking against the wall side of the trail.
Desert Gold |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: spirit it was as though they had got to their dear country,
and the very city of rugged Ithaca, where they were born
and reared.
'Then making lament they spake to me winged words: "O
fosterling of Zeus, we were none otherwise glad at thy
returning, than if we had come to Ithaca, our own country.
Nay come, of our other companions tell us the tale of their
ruin."
'So spake they, but I answered them with soft words:
"Behold, let us first of all draw up the ship ashore, and
bestow our goods in the caves and all our gear. And do ye
The Odyssey |
