| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: back from the rails in parallel lines of white spray. As he went up
the main street, Hotchkiss was cheerfully oblivious of the weather,
of the threatening dusk, of our generally draggled condition. My
draggled condition, I should say, for he improved every moment,
- his eyes brighter, his ruddy face ruddier, his collar newer and
glossier. Sometime, when it does not encircle the little man's
neck, I shall test that collar with a match.
I was growing steadily more depressed: I loathed my errand and its
necessity. I had always held that a man who played the spy on a
woman was beneath contempt. Then, I admit I was afraid of what I
might learn. For a time, however, this promised to be a negligible
The Man in Lower Ten |
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 Walking by Henry David Thoreau: Only to set snares,
Who liv'st all alone,
Close to the bone
And where life is sweetest
Constantly eatest.
When the spring stirs my blood
With the instinct to travel,
I can get enough gravel
On the Old Marlborough Road.
Nobody repairs it,
For nobody wears it;
Walking |
