| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: and at a foot's pace, feeling speed and concealment to be equally
helpless, and that if he were to fall at all, he had best fall with
dignity. Not a shot was fired at him; no effort made to arrest him
on his errand. As he went, he spoke and even jested with the
Samoans, and they answered in good part. One fellow was leaping,
yelling, and tossing his axe in the air, after the way of an
excited islander. "FAIMALOSI! go it!" said Hufnagel, and the
fellow laughed and redoubled his exertions. As soon as the boats
entered the lagoon, fire was again opened from the woods. The
fifty blue-jackets jumped overboard, hove down the boats to be a
shield, and dragged them towards the landing-place. In this way,
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: family and old friends used.
"I beg your pardon, I mean, Mrs. Wilkes. . . ."
"Oh, Captain Butler, do not ask my pardon! I should feel honored
if you called me 'Melly' without the Miss! I feel as though you
were my--my brother or--or my cousin. How kind you are and how
clever! How can I ever thank you enough?"
"Thank you," said Rhett and for a moment he looked almost
embarrassed. "I should never presume so far, but Miss Melly," and
his voice was apologetic, "I'm sorry I had to say that Mr. Wilkes
was in Belle Watling's house. I'm sorry to have involved him and
the others in such a--a-- But I had to think fast when I rode away
Gone With the Wind |
| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: began to seem even practicable. The people who listened to him in
1958 with a smiling impatience, were eager before 1959 was four
months old to know just exactly what he thought might be done.
He answered with the patience of a philosopher and the lucidity
of a Frenchman. He began to receive responses of a more and more
hopeful type. He came across the Atlantic to Italy, and there he
gathered in the promises for this congress. He chose those high
meadows above Brissago for the reasons we have stated. 'We must
get away,' he said, 'from old associations.' He set to work
requisitioning material for his conference with an assurance that
was justified by the replies. With a slight incredulity the
The Last War: A World Set Free |
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 Elizabeth and her German Garden by Marie Annette Beauchamp: agreeable children. I very much like <166> to hear you talk together.
It is all so young and fresh what you think and what you believe,
and not of the least consequence to any one.
"Not of the least consequence?" cried Minora.
"What we believe is of very great consequence indeed to us."
"Are you jeering at our beliefs?" inquired Irais sternly.
"Not for worlds. I would not on any account disturb
or change your pretty little beliefs. It is your chief charm
that you always believe every-thing. How desperate would our case
be if young ladies only believed facts, and never accepted another
person's assurance, but preferred the evidence of their own eyes!
Elizabeth and her German Garden |
