| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: the perusal by the village cronies of a newspaper, containing,
among other matters, an account of how some officer pending the
sentence of some court-martial had been enlarged on parole, Mr
Willet drew back from his guest's ear, and without any visible
alteration of feature, chuckled thrice audibly. This nearest
approach to a laugh in which he ever indulged (and that but seldom
and only on extreme occasions), never even curled his lip or
effected the smallest change in--no, not so much as a slight
wagging of--his great, fat, double chin, which at these times, as
at all others, remained a perfect desert in the broad map of his
face; one changeless, dull, tremendous blank.
Barnaby Rudge |
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 Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: not that kind of a girl. I'm a bad girl. Everyone believes me
so and I might just as well be. When I was little in my mother's
place I used to smoke and drink. I dream every night--often
about men doing bad things. I wake up and sit up to see if men
are there or if they are gone. My dreams are always just that
plain. If I read a book I can sit down and imagine all the
people are right before me. I can get it just by reading. If
anybody speaks to me I jump, and it is all gone. When I go to
the theatre or the nickel show I can come home and see the whole
show over again. I have been that way ever since I could
understand things. When I was small and people would tell me
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