| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Door in the Wall, et. al. by H. G. Wells: And so his coup d'etat came to an end.
He stayed outside the wall of the valley of the blind for two
nights and days without food or shelter, and meditated upon the
Unexpected. During these meditations he repeated very frequently
and always with a profounder note of derision the exploded proverb:
"In the Country of the Blind the One-Eyed Man is King." He thought
chiefly of ways of fighting and conquering these people, and it
grew clear that for him no practicable way was possible. He had no
weapons, and now it would be hard to get one.
The canker of civilisation had got to him even in Bogota, and
he could not find it in himself to go down and assassinate a blind
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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 Kenilworth by Walter Scott: Michael Lambourne, whose drunken humour was not of course
diminished by this new potation, went on in the same wild way,
renewing his acquaintance with such of the guests as he had
formerly known, and experiencing a reception in which there was
now something of deference mingled with a good deal of fear; for
the least servitor of the favourite Earl, especially such a man
as Lambourne, was, for very sufficient reasons, an object both of
the one and of the other.
In the meanwhile, the old man, seeing his guide in this
uncontrollable humour, ceased to remonstrate with him, and
sitting down in the most obscure corner of the room, called for a
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