| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: ankle on his knee with a careless hand. "Anything new?"
he asked.
Thorpe lolled back in his arm-chair. "I'm going to be able
to get away in a few days' time," he said, indifferently.
"I expect to finally wind up the business on the Stock
Exchange tomorrow."
"Ah--yes," commented Plowden, vacantly. He seemed to be
searching after thoughts which had wandered astray.
"Yes--of course."
"Yes--of course," Thorpe said after him, with a latent
touch of significance.
The Market-Place |
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 Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: that other --" but Turan, seeing a thousand or more years of
osculatory memoirs portending, interrupted.
"Tell me, ancient one," he said, "not of thy loves but of
thyself. Who are you? What do you here in the pits of O-Tar?"
"I might ask you the same, young man," replied the other. "Few
there are who visit the pits other than the dead, except my
pupils--ey! That is it--you are new pupils! Good! But never
before have they sent a woman to learn the great art from the
greatest artist. But times have changed. Now, in my day the women
did no work--they were just for kissing and loving. Ey, those
were the women. I mind the one we captured in the south--ey! she
The Chessmen of Mars |
