| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: such people as others, and some of them are quite innocent."
"Of course, there are all sorts among them, and naturally one
pities them. Others won't let anything off, but I try to lighten
their condition where I can. It's better that I should suffer,
but not they. Others keep to the law in every detail, even as far
as to shoot, but I show pity. May I?--Take another," he said, and
poured out another tumbler of tea for Nekhludoff.
"And who is she, this woman that you want to see?" he asked.
"It is an unfortunate woman who got into a brothel, and was there
falsely accused of poisoning, and she is a very good woman,"
Nekhludoff answered.
Resurrection |
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 Falk by Joseph Conrad: all."
Thus from question to question I got the whole
story. I fancy it was the only way I could that
night have stood by him. Outwardly at least he
was himself again; the first sign of it was the re-
turn of that incongruous trick he had of drawing
both his hands down his face--and it had its mean-
ing now, with that slight shudder of the frame and
the passionate anguish of these hands uncovering
a hungry immovable face, the wide pupils of the
intent, silent, fascinating eyes.
Falk |
