| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: any previous year had so much official business as that year. But
he was not aware that he sought work for himself that year, that
this was one of the means for keeping shut that secret place
where lay hid his feelings towards his wife and son and his
thoughts about them, which became more terrible the longer they
lay there. If any one had had the right to ask Alexey
Alexandrovitch what he thought of his wife's behavior, the mild
and peaceable Alexey Alexandrovitch would have made no answer,
but he would have been greatly angered with any man who should
question him on that subject. For this reason there positively
came into Alexey Alexandrovitch's face a look of haughtiness and
Anna Karenina |
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 Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: the left, straight across the stream, with the same motion: the
semicircle is completed, and the fly hangs quivering for a few
seconds at the lowest point of the arc. Three or four feet of line
are drawn from the reel. Third cast to the right; fourth cast to
the left. Then a little more line. And so, with widening half-
circles, the water is covered, gradually and very carefully, until
at length the angler has as much line out as his two-handed rod can
lift and swing. Then the first "drop" is finished; the man in the
stern quietly pulls up the anchor and lets the boat drift down a
few yards; the same process is repeated on the second drop; and so
on, until the end of the run is reached and the fly has passed over
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