| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: piece of rope, carried it off into the densest part of the jungle.
He could not well negotiate the trees with his awkward burden,
but he kept to the trails, and so made fairly good time.
For several hours he traveled a little north of east until he
came to an impenetrable wall of matted and tangled vegetation.
Then he took to the lower branches, and in another fifteen
minutes he emerged into the amphitheater of the apes, where
they met in council, or to celebrate the rites of the Dum-Dum.
Near the center of the clearing, and not far from the
drum, or altar, he commenced to dig. This was harder work
than turning up the freshly excavated earth at the grave, but
Tarzan of the Apes |
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 Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: and partly detached. But it was the supporting chain that held my
eye and fascinated with its sinister suggestion. Three inches of
it had been snapped off, and as well as I knew anything on earth, I
knew that the bit of chain that the amateur detective had found,
blood-stain and all, belonged just there.
And there was no one I could talk to about it, no one to tell me
how hideously absurd it was, no one to give me a slap and tell me
there are tons of fine gold chains made every year, or to point out
the long arm of coincidence!
With my one useful hand I fumbled the things back into the bag and
thrust it deep out of sight among the pillows. Then I lay back in
The Man in Lower Ten |
