| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: was squatting close by in an attitude of deep dejection.
"And where did you say he is hiding now?" asked Lakamba, breaking
at last the silence full of gloomy forebodings in which they both
had been lost for a long while.
"In Bulangi's clearing--the furthest one, away from the house.
They went there that very night. The white man's daughter took
him there. She told me so herself, speaking to me openly, for
she is half white and has no decency. She said she was waiting
for him while he was here; then, after a long time, he came out
of the darkness and fell at her feet exhausted. He lay like one
dead, but she brought him back to life in her arms, and made him
Almayer's Folly |
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 Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: hurried to the door to look after them.
Janci sat still in his place, but he had laid aside his spoon and
with wide eyes was staring ahead of him, murmuring, "It's the pastor
this time; I saw him - just as I did the others."
"Shepherd, the inn-keeper wants to see you, there's something the
matter with his cow." cried a young man, coming from the other
direction and pushing in at the door past Margit, who stood there
staring up the road.
Janci was so deep in his own thoughts that he apparently did not
hear the boy's words. At all events he did not answer them, but
himself asked an unexpected question - a question that was not
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