| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: Is it really you? Is it?'
'Yes, Heathcliff,' he replied, glancing from me up to the windows,
which reflected a score of glittering moons, but showed no lights
from within. 'Are they at home? where is she? Nelly, you are not
glad! you needn't be so disturbed. Is she here? Speak! I want to
have one word with her - your mistress. Go, and say some person
from Gimmerton desires to see her.'
'How will she take it?' I exclaimed. 'What will she do? The
surprise bewilders me - it will put her out of her head! And you
ARE Heathcliff! But altered! Nay, there's no comprehending it.
Have you been for a soldier?'
Wuthering Heights |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: ,one voice said, "If you go among the Trees, the Children of
the Night will change your spirit. Eat and sleep here." The other
voice said, "Ask for the Knife." I listened to that voice.
'I said to my Mother in the morning, "I go away to find a thing
for the people, but I do not know whether I shall return in my
own shape." She answered, "Whether you live or die, or are
made different, I am your Mother."'
'True,' said Puck. 'The Old Ones themselves cannot change
men's mothers even if they would.'
'Let us thank the Old Ones! I spoke to my Maiden, the Priestess
who waited for me at the Dew-ponds. She promised fine things
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