| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: you don't hold your tongues, I'll pick you!'
There was silence in a moment, and several of the pink daisies
turned white.
`That's right!' said the Tiger-lily. `The daisies are worst of
all. When one speaks, they all begin together, and it's enough
to make one wither to hear the way they go on!'
`How is it you can all talk so nicely?' Alice said, hoping to
get it into a better temper by a compliment. `I've been in many
gardens before, but none of the flowers could talk.'
`Put your hand down, and feel the ground,' said the Tiger-lily.
`Then you'll know why.
Through the Looking-Glass |
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 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: am glad you have come!"
She wore a murrey-coloured gown with a little lace collar.
It was made quite plain, and hung about her slight figure with
clinging gracefulness. Her hair, which formerly she had worn
according to the custom of the day was now twisted up tightly,
and she had altogether the air of a woman clipped and pruned
by severe discipline, an under-brightness shining through
from the depths which that discipline had not yet been able
to reach.
She had come forward prettily, but Jude felt that she had
hardly expected him to kiss her, as he was burning to do,
Jude the Obscure |
