| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: hearts.
Not so with the braves. Seeing that the pale face scorned all efforts to make
him flinch, the young brave turned to Big Tree. At a command from this chief
the Indians stopped their maneuvering round the post and formed a large
circle. In another moment a tall warrior appeared carrying an armful of
fagots.
In spite of his iron nerve Isaac shuddered with horror. He had anticipated
running the gauntlet, having his nails pulled out, powder and salt shot into
his flesh, being scalped alive and a host of other Indian tortures, but as he
had killed no members of this tribe he had not thought of being burned alive.
God, it was too horrible!
Betty Zane |
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 My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass: the new fugitive slave bill. I was much troubled. I had very
little money enough to buy me a few loaves of bread, but not
enough to pay board, outside a lumber yard. I saw the wisdom of
keeping away from the ship yards, for if Master Hugh pursued me,
he would naturally expect to find me looking for work among the
calkers. For a time, every door seemed closed against me. A
sense of my loneliness and helplessness crept over me, <264>and
covered me with something bordering on despair. In the midst of
thousands of my fellowmen, and yet a perfect stranger! In the
midst of human brothers, and yet more fearful of them than of
hungry wolves! I was without home, without friends, without
My Bondage and My Freedom |
