| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: country toward the Pangani; yet it was impossible to stop --
she must go on.
Bertha Kircher was no coward, whatever else she may have
been, but as night began to close down around her she could
not shut out from her mind entirely contemplation of the
terrors of the long hours ahead before the rising sun should
dissipate the Stygian gloom -- the horrid jungle night -- that
lures forth all the prowling, preying creatures of destruction.
She found, just before dark, an open meadow-like break in
the almost interminable bush. There was a small clump of
trees near the center and here she decided to camp. The
Tarzan the Untamed |
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 Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: room is warm."
"I wanted so to come and see you. You are the only person in the world who
could help me! I know you are so large, and generous, and kind to other
women!" She sat down. Tears stood in her large blue eyes: she was
pulling off her little gloves unconsciously.
"You know Mr.--" (she mentioned the name of a well-known writer): "I know
you meet him often in your work. I want you to do something for me!"
The woman on the hearth-rug looked down at her.
"I couldn't tell my father or my mother, or any one else; but I can tell
you, though I know so little of you. You know, last summer he came and
stayed with us a month. I saw a great deal of him. I don't know if he
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