| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: Your men are good men too, I hear.'
But then, the Prince had perhaps an exaggerated idea of the beauty of
money, and the blessings of industrialism.
However, the Prince had been a King, and the King had died, and now
there was another King, whose chief function seemed to be to open
soup-kitchens.
And the good working men were somehow hemming Shipley in. New mining
villages crowded on the park, and the squire felt somehow that the
population was alien. He used to feel, in a good-natured but quite
grand way, lord of his own domain and of his own colliers. Now, by a
subtle pervasion of the new spirit, he had somehow been pushed out. It
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from A Hero of Our Time by M.Y. Lermontov: him.
By this time the carriage was a long way off,
but Pechorin made a sign with his hand which
might be interpreted as meaning:
"It is doubtful whether I shall return, and
there is no reason, either, why I should!"
The jingle of the bell and the clatter of the
wheels along the flinty road had long ceased to
be audible, but the poor old man still remained
standing in the same place, deep in thought.
"Yes," he said at length, endeavouring to
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Koran: thought, as ye thought, that God would not raise up any one from the
dead.
'"But we touched the heavens and found them filled with a mighty
guard and shooting-stars; and we did sit in certain seats thereof to
listen; but whoso of us listens now finds a shooting-star for him on
guard.
'"And, verily, we know not whether evil be meant for those who are
in the earth, or if their Lord means right by them.
'"And of us are some who are pious, and of us are some who are
otherwise: we are in separate bands.
'"And we thought that we could not frustrate God in the earth, and
The Koran |
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 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: hundred leagues to the east, so that the oldest sailor on board
could not tell in what part of the world we were. Our provisions
held out well, our ship was staunch, and our crew all in good
health; but we lay in the utmost distress for water. We thought
it best to hold on the same course, rather than turn more
northerly, which might have brought us to the north-west part of
Great Tartary, and into the Frozen Sea.
On the 16th day of June, 1703, a boy on the top-mast discovered
land. On the 17th, we came in full view of a great island, or
continent (for we knew not whether;) on the south side whereof
was a small neck of land jutting out into the sea, and a creek
Gulliver's Travels |
