The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: more in my dull misery. She waited a little longer, then she woke
me up with a crash. It was as if the house had fallen, and yet she
had only asked me:
"I believe you are received on very friendly terms by Madame de
Lastaola on account of your common exertions for the cause. Very
good friends, are you not?"
"You mean Rita," I said stupidly, but I felt stupid, like a man who
wakes up only to be hit on the head.
"Oh, Rita," she repeated with unexpected acidity, which somehow
made me feel guilty of an incredible breach of good manners. "H'm,
Rita. . . . Oh, well, let it be Rita - for the present. Though why
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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 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: happened to think of something. I knowed mighty
well that a drownded man don't float on his back, but
on his face. So I knowed, then, that this warn't pap,
but a woman dressed up in a man's clothes. So I was
uncomfortable again. I judged the old man would
turn up again by and by, though I wished he wouldn't.
We played robber now and then about a month, and
then I resigned. All the boys did. We hadn't robbed
nobody, hadn't killed any people, but only just pre-
tended. We used to hop out of the woods and go
charging down on hog-drivers and women in carts
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