| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: desperate for it - it would save her life.
"Dear lady, c'est trop fort!" Pemberton laughed in the manner and
with the borrowed grace of idiom that marked the best colloquial,
the best anecdotic, moments of his friends themselves. "Where in
the world do you suppose I should get three louis, du train dont
vous allez?"
"I thought you worked - wrote things. Don't they pay you?"
"Not a penny."
"Are you such a fool as to work for nothing?"
"You ought surely to know that."
Mrs. Moreen stared, then she coloured a little. Pemberton saw she
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Koran: turns unto Him whomsoever He pleases, and God is knowing, wise!
Did ye reckon that ye would be left, when God knows not as yet those
of you who fought strenuously, and who did not take other than God and
His Apostle, and the believers for an intimate friend? for God is well
aware of what ye do. It is not for idolaters to repair to the
mosques of God, bearing witness against themselves to unbelief; they
it is whose works are vain, and in the Fire shall they dwell for aye!
He only shall repair to the mosques of God who believes in God and
the last day, and is steadfast in prayer, and gives the alms, and
fears only God;- it may be that these will be of those who are guided.
Have ye made out the giving drink to the pilgrims and the
The Koran |
