| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: demand he makes on it in the exultation of his pride the more likely
it is to turn on him and burn him to a cinder . . . "
"A far-fetched enough parallel," I observed coldly to Marlow. He
had returned to the arm-chair in the shadow of the bookcase. "But
accepting the meaning you have in your mind it reduces itself to the
knowledge of how to use it. And if you mean that this ravenous
Anthony--"
"Ravenous is good," interrupted Marlow. "He was a-hungering and a-
thirsting for femininity to enter his life in a way no mere feminist
could have the slightest conception of. I reckon that this accounts
for much of Fyne's disgust with him. Good little Fyne. You have no
Chance |
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 Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: I feel as if I could be anything or everything;
as if I could rant and storm, or sigh or cut capers,
in any tragedy or comedy in the English language. Let us
be doing something. Be it only half a play, an act, a scene;
what should prevent us? Not these countenances, I am sure,"
looking towards the Miss Bertrams; "and for a theatre,
what signifies a theatre? We shall be only amusing ourselves.
Any room in this house might suffice."
"We must have a curtain," said Tom Bertram; "a few yards
of green baize for a curtain, and perhaps that may be enough."
"Oh, quite enough," cried Mr. Yates, "with only just a side wing
Mansfield Park |
