The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: them find me if they can. So I got the false whiskers
and the goggles and this countrified suit of clothes,
and fetched them along back in a hand-bag; and when I
was passing a shop where they sell all sorts of things,
I got a glimpse of one of my pals through the window.
It was Bud Dixon. I was glad, you bet. I says to myself,
I'll see what he buys. So I kept shady, and watched.
Now what do you reckon it was he bought?"
"Whiskers?" said I.
"No."
"Goggles?"
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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 Dracula by Bram Stoker: In the meantime I shall read over some of these documents,
and shall be better able to understand certain things."
He carried the phonograph himself up to my sitting room and adjusted
it for me. Now I shall learn something pleasant, I am sure.
For it will tell me the other side of a true love episode of which I
know one side already.
DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
29 September.--I was so absorbed in that wonderful diary of
Jonathan Harker and that other of his wife that I let the time
run on without thinking. Mrs. Harker was not down when the maid
came to announce dinner, so I said, "She is possibly tired.
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