| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: "Miss Scarlett! Miss Scarlett!" he cried.
Scarlett caught him by the arms. Pork, part and parcel of Tara, as
dear as the bricks and the cool corridors! She felt his tears
stream down on her hands as he patted her clumsily, crying: "Sho
is glad you back! Sho is--"
Prissy burst into tears and incoherent mumblings: "Poke! Poke,
honey!" And little Wade, encouraged by the weakness of his elders,
began sniffling: "Wade thirsty!"
Scarlett caught them all in hand.
"Miss Melanie is in the wagon and her baby too. Pork, you must
carry her upstairs very carefully and put her in the back company
Gone With the Wind |
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 Rescue by Joseph Conrad: describe very well the coast, and his latitude is very
uncertain," he went on. "I am not clear in my mind where exactly
you are stranded. And yet I know every inch of that land--over
there."
Carter cleared his throat and began to talk in his slow drawl. He
seemed to dole out facts, to disclose with sparing words the
features of the coast, but every word showed the minuteness of
his observation, the clear vision of a seaman able to master
quickly the aspect of a strange land and of a strange sea. He
presented, with concise lucidity, the picture of the tangle of
reefs and sandbanks, through which the yacht had miraculously
The Rescue |
