| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: funalia vincunt.
98. Sylvan scene. _V._ Milton, _Paradise Lost_, iv. 140.
99. _V._ Ovid, METAMORPHOSES, vi, Philomela.
100. Cf. Part III, 1. 204.
115. Cf. Part III, 1. 195.
118. Cf. Webster: 'Is the wind in that door still?'
126. Cf. Part I, l. 37, 48.
138. Cf. the game of chess in Middleton's _Women beware Women_.
III. THE FIRE SERMON
176. V. Spenser, PROTHALAMION.
192. Cf. _The Tempest_, i. ii.
The Waste Land |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: for AEgeus; but he was nowhere to be seen.
The Pallantids looked at him, and then at each other, and
each whispered to the man next him, 'This is a forward
fellow; he ought to be thrust out at the door.' But each
man's neighbour whispered in return, 'His shoulders are
broad; will you rise and put him out?' So they all sat still
where they were.
Then Theseus called to the servants, and said, 'Go tell King
AEgeus, your master, that Theseus of Troezene is here, and
asks to be his guest awhile.'
A servant ran and told AEgeus, where he sat in his chamber
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: do something far better " And Mahin winked
an eye.
"What's that?"
"Something quite simple " Mahin took the
coupon in his hand. " Put ONE before the 2.50
and it will be 12.50."
"But do such coupons exist?"
"Why, certainly; the thousand roubles notes
have coupons of 12.50. I have cashed one in
the same way."
"You don't say so?"
The Forged Coupon |
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 Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: I? WOULD I?" cried the Boer-woman; "you cat's tail, you dog's paw! Be near
my house tomorrow morning when the sun rises," she gasped, "my Kaffers will
drag you through the sand. They would do it gladly, any of them, for a bit
of tobacco, for all your prayings with them."
"I am bewildered, I am bewildered, said the German, standing before her and
raising his hand to his forehead; "I--I do not understand."
"Ask him, ask him?" cried Tant Sannie, pointing to Bonaparte; "he knows.
You thought he could not make me understand, but he did, he did, you old
fool! I know enough English for that. You be here," shouted the
Dutchwoman, "when the morning star rises, and I will let my Kaffers take
you out and drag you, till there is not one bone left in your old body that
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