| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Snider lied!" I cried. And then I seized her and held her
in my arms, and made her listen to me, though she struggled
and fought like a young lioness. "I love you, Victory. You
must know that I love you--that I have always loved you, and
that I never could have made so base a promise."
She ceased her struggles, just a trifle, but still tried to
push me from her. "You called me a barbarian!" she said.
Ah, so that was it! That still rankled. I crushed her to
me.
"You could not love a barbarian," she went on, but she had
ceased to struggle.
Lost Continent |
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 Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: brightened his face.
The hunter was Joe.
He was satisfied now, for after stowing the squirrel in the pocket of his
hunting coat he shouldered his rifle and went back up the ravine. Presently a
dull roar sounded above the babble of the brook. It grew louder as he threaded
his way carefully over the stones. Spots of white foam flecked the brook.
Passing under the gray, stained cliff, Joe turned around a rocky corner, and
came to an abrupt end of the ravine. A waterfall marked the spot where the
brook entered. The water was brown as it took the leap, light green when it
thinned out; and below, as it dashed on the stones, it became a beautiful,
sheeny white.
The Spirit of the Border |
