| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: when she lowered her voice to sigh, tapping her left side
familiarly, "And all overclouded by THIS, you know; all at the
mercy of a weakness - !" Pemberton gathered that the weakness was
in the region of the heart. He had known the poor child was not
robust: this was the basis on which he had been invited to treat,
through an English lady, an Oxford acquaintance, then at Nice, who
happened to know both his needs and those of the amiable American
family looking out for something really superior in the way of a
resident tutor.
The young man's impression of his prospective pupil, who had come
into the room as if to see for himself the moment Pemberton was
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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 Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
Rhapsody on a Windy Night
Twelve o’clock.
Prufrock/Other Observations |
