| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: communicative. She was a nurse by profession, she said; had come to the
Transvaal, hearing that good nurses were needed there. She had not yet
found work. The landlady did not perhaps know whether there would be any
for her in that town?
The landlady put down her knitting and smote her fat hands together.
If it wasn't the very finger of God's providence, as though you saw it
hanging out of the sky, she said. Here was a lady ill and needing a new
nurse that very day, and not able to get one to her mind, and now--well, if
it wasn't enough to convert all the Atheists and Freethinkers in the
Transvaal, she didn't know!
Then the landlady proceeded to detail facts.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: her. She trusts us."
"How awful it's been these last three
months." Signa held the lantern so that he
could see to buckle the straps. "It don't seem
right that we must all be so miserable. Why do
we all have to be punished? Seems to me like
good times would never come again."
Ivar expressed himself in a deep sigh, but
said nothing. He stooped and took a sandburr
O Pioneers! |
