| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: It was a rather high bed-place with a set of drawers underneath.
This amazing swimmer really needed the lift I gave him by seizing
his leg. He tumbled in, rolled over on his back, and flung one arm
across his eyes. And then, with his face nearly hidden, he must
have looked exactly as I used to look in that bed. I gazed upon my
other self for a while before drawing across carefully the two
green serge curtains which ran on a brass rod. I thought for a
moment of pinning them together for greater safety, but I sat down
on the couch, and once there I felt unwilling to rise and hunt for
a pin. I would do it in a moment. I was extremely tired, in a
peculiarly intimate way, by the strain of stealthiness, by the
'Twixt Land & Sea |
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 White Moll by Frank L. Packard: it for keeps if a doctor came here. I - I'd rather go out this way
than in that horrible thing they call the 'chair.' Oh, my God,
don't you understand that! I've seen pictures of it! It's a
horrible thing - a horrible thing - horrible!"
"Nan" - Rhoda Gray steadied her voice - you re delirious. You do
not know what you are saying. There isn't any horrible thing to
frighten you. Now you just lie quietly here. I'll only be a few
minutes, and -" She stopped abruptly as her wrists were suddenly
imprisoned in a frantic grip.
"You swore it!" Gypsy Nan was whispering feverishly. "You swore
it! They say the White Moll never snitched. That's the one chance
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