| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of the many little islets which dot the western shore
of the Macassar Strait.
Of the many men Virginia had met during the month at
Singapore von Horn had been by far the most interesting
and companionable. Such time as he could find from the
many duties which had devolved upon him in the matter
of obtaining and outfitting the schooner, and signing
her two mates and crew of fifteen, had been spent with
his employer's daughter.
The girl was rather glad that he was to be a member of
their little company, for she had found him a much
The Monster Men |
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 Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: were not working, but playing at noughts and crosses. I always
saw him wearing a smart short jacket and a jauntily tied cravat,
and he always smelt, even through the keyhole, of delicate
feminine perfumery. He only left his room for dinner, but he ate
little.
"I can't make brother out!" mother complained of him. "Every day
we kill a turkey and pigeons on purpose for him, I make a
_compote_ with my own hands, and he eats a plateful of broth and
a bit of meat the size of a finger and gets up from the table. I
begin begging him to eat; he comes back and drinks a glass of
milk. And what is there in that, in a glass of milk? It's no
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