| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: He looked me all over, as if he had been going to buy me;
and then straightening himself up with a grunt, he said,
"He's the right sort for you, Jerry; I don't care what you gave for him,
he'll be worth it." Thus my character was established on the stand.
This man's name was Grant, but he was called "Gray Grant",
or "Governor Grant". He had been the longest on that stand
of any of the men, and he took it upon himself to settle matters
and stop disputes. He was generally a good-humored, sensible man;
but if his temper was a little out, as it was sometimes
when he had drunk too much, nobody liked to come too near his fist,
for he could deal a very heavy blow.
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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 Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: blond, blue-eyed, and spectacled; I think he secretly sneered
at my occasional martial enthusiasms and censures of supine neutrality.
There was, however, something he wanted in embattled Flanders;
and in order to secure it had had to assume a military exterior.
What he wanted was not a thing which many persons want, but something
connected with the peculiar branch of medical science which he
had chosen quite clandestinely to follow, and in which he had
achieved amazing and occasionally hideous results. It was, in
fact, nothing more or less than an abundant supply of freshly
killed men in every stage of dismemberment.
Herbert West needed
Herbert West: Reanimator |
