| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Chita: A Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn: with human dead--passing out, processionally, to the great open.
Very far, where the huge pitching of the swells was diminished by
distance into a mere fluttering of ripples, the water appeared as
if sprinkled with them;--they vanished and became visible again
at irregular intervals, here and there--floating most thickly
eastward!--tossing, swaying patches of white or pink or blue or
black each with its tiny speck of flesh-color showing as the sea
lifted or lowered the body. Nearer to shore there were few; but
of these two were close enough to be almost recognizable: Miguel
first discerned them. They were rising and falling where the
water was deepest--well out in front of the mouth of the bayou,
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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 The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: meaning might be; so that, presently, to put the thing with some coherence
and with the mere aid of her presence to my own mind, I went on:
"That he's an injury to the others."
At this, with one of the quick turns of simple folk, she suddenly flamed up.
"Master Miles! HIM an injury?"
There was such a flood of good faith in it that, though I had not yet
seen the child, my very fears made me jump to the absurdity of the idea.
I found myself, to meet my friend the better, offering it,
on the spot, sarcastically. "To his poor little innocent mates!"
"It's too dreadful," cried Mrs. Grose, "to say such cruel things!
Why, he's scarce ten years old."
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