| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: and there.
"Where's your girl, Nelson?" he asked, in a tone as if every soul
in the world belonged to him. And then to me: "The goddess has
flown, eh?"
Nelson's Cove - as we used to call it - was crowded with shipping
that day. There was first my steamer, then the Neptun gunboat
further out, and the Bonito, brig, anchored as usual so close
inshore that it looked as if, with a little skill and judgment, one
could shy a hat from the verandah on to her scrupulously holystoned
quarter-deck. Her brasses flashed like gold, her white body-paint
had a sheen like a satin robe. The rake of her varnished spars and
'Twixt Land & Sea |
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 Adam Bede by George Eliot: could feel nothing but that death was in Arthur's face, and that
he was helpless before it. He made not a single movement, but
knelt like an image of despair gazing at an image of death.
Chapter XXVIII
A Dilemma
IT was only a few minutes measured by the clock--though Adam
always thought it had been a long while--before he perceived a
gleam of consciousness in Arthur's face and a slight shiver
through his frame. The intense joy that flooded his soul brought
back some of the old affection with it.
"Do you feel any pain, sir?" he said, tenderly, loosening Arthur's
Adam Bede |
