| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: her two names became a pair of eyes that didn't know him. He gave
them a last long look, but no palest light broke.
CHAPTER VI
He stayed away, after this, for a year; he visited the depths of
Asia, spending himself on scenes of romantic interest, of
superlative sanctity; but what was present to him everywhere was
that for a man who had known what HE had known the world was vulgar
and vain. The state of mind in which he had lived for so many
years shone out to him, in reflexion, as a light that coloured and
refined, a light beside which the glow of the East was garish cheap
and thin. The terrible truth was that he had lost--with everything
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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 Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: opinion I value confound me with the position I am placed in."
She seemed ready to cry as she said these last words. And though
these words had no meaning, or at any rate a very indefinite
meaning, they seemed to be of exceptional depth, meaning, or
goodness to Nekhludoff, so much was he attracted by the look of
the bright eyes which accompanied the words of this young,
beautiful, and well-dressed woman.
Nekhludoff looked at her in silence, and could not take his eyes
from her face.
"You think I do not understand you and all that goes on in you.
Why, everybody knows what you are doing. C'est le secret de
Resurrection |
