| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: 'The fiend, the fiend'- he led me to that place.
Edg. Bear free and patient thoughts.
Enter Lear, mad, [fantastically dressed with weeds].
But who comes here?
The safer sense will ne'er accommodate
His master thus.
Lear. No, they cannot touch me for coming;
I am the King himself.
Edg. O thou side-piercing sight!
Lear. Nature 's above art in that respect. There's your press
money. That fellow handles his bow like a crow-keeper. Draw
King Lear |
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 Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: He boasted a fresh colour, a tight little figure, unquenchable
gaiety, and indefatigable goodwill. His clothes puzzled the
diagnostic mind, until you heard he had been once a private coachman,
when they became eloquent and seemed a part of his biography. His
face contained the rest, and, I fear, a prophecy of the future; the
hawk's nose above accorded so ill with the pink baby's mouth below.
His spirit and his pride belonged, you might say, to the nose; while
it was the general shiftlessness expressed by the other that had
thrown him from situation to situation, and at length on board the
emigrant ship. Barney ate, so to speak, nothing from the galley; his
own tea, butter, and eggs supported him throughout the voyage; and
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