| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: and then tried to tear my throat out with his teeth.
Besides, he called the Count `lord and master', and he may want
to get out to help him in some diabolical way. That horrid
thing has the wolves and the rats and his own kind to help him,
so I suppose he isn't above trying to use a respectable lunatic.
He certainly did seem earnest, though. I only hope we have
done what is best. These things, in conjunction with the wild
work we have in hand, help to unnerve a man."
The Professor stepped over, and laying his hand on his shoulder,
said in his grave, kindly way, "Friend John, have no fear.
We are trying to do our duty in a very sad and terrible case,
Dracula |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: He is evidently the Sir Oracle of them,and I should think must have been
in his time a most dictatorial person.
He will not admit anything, and down faces everybody.
If he can't out-argue them he bullies them,and then takes
their silence for agreement with his views.
Lucy was looking sweetly pretty in her white lawn frock.
She has got a beautiful colour since she has been here.
I noticed that the old men did not lose any time in coming
and sitting near her when we sat down. She is so sweet with
old people, I think they all fell in love with her on the spot.
Even my old man succumbed and did not contradict her,
Dracula |
| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: A considerable crowd had gathered outside, and others, hearing
the uproar, were coming running to join them. With these our hero
stood, trembling like a leaf, and with cold chills running up and
down his back like water at the narrow escape from the danger
that had threatened him.
Nor shall you think him a coward, for you must remember he was
hardly sixteen years old at the time, and that this was the first
affair of the sort he had encountered. Afterward, as you shall
learn, he showed that he could exhibit courage enough at a pinch.
While he stood there, endeavoring to recover his composure, the
while the tumult continued within, suddenly two men came running
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
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 Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: human, dramatic; which stirred not merely the springs of
covetousness or envy, or even of a just demand for the freedom of
labour and enterprise: but the very deepest springs of rage,
contempt, and hate; wrongs which caused, as I believe, the horrors
of the Revolution.
It is notorious how many of the men most deeply implicated in those
horrors were of the artist class--by which I signify not merely
painters and sculptors--as the word artist has now got, somewhat
strangely, to signify, at least in England--but what the French
meant by ARTISTES--producers of luxuries and amusements, play-
actors, musicians, and suchlike, down to that "distracted peruke-
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