| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: I pride myself I cowed him.
`Well I expect you're not much interested in babies, but Antonia's
got on fine. She loved it from the first as dearly as if she'd
had a ring on her finger, and was never ashamed of it.
It's a year and eight months old now, and no baby was ever
better cared-for. Antonia is a natural-born mother.
I wish she could marry and raise a family, but I don't know
as there's much chance now.'
I slept that night in the room I used to have when I was a little boy,
with the summer wind blowing in at the windows, bringing the smell
of the ripe fields. I lay awake and watched the moonlight shining
My Antonia |
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 Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: roughly overhead; the steady heart of the _Euphrosyne_ slowly ceased
to beat; and Helen, poking her nose above deck, saw a stationary
castle upon a stationary hill. They had dropped anchor in the mouth
of the Tagus, and instead of cleaving new waves perpetually,
the same waves kept returning and washing against the sides of the ship.
As soon as breakfast was done, Willoughby disappeared over
the vessel's side, carrying a brown leather case, shouting over
his shoulder that every one was to mind and behave themselves,
for he would be kept in Lisbon doing business until five o'clock
that afternoon.
At about that hour he reappeared, carrying his case, professing
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