The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: he murmured piously. "When love enters a man's heart he is like
a child--without any understanding. Be merciful, Lakamba," he
added, twitching the corner of the Rajah's sarong warningly.
Lakamba snatched away the skirt of the sarong angrily. Under the
dawning comprehension of intolerable embarrassments caused by
Dain's return to Sambir he began to lose such composure as he had
been, till then, able to maintain; and now he raised his voice
loudly above the whistling of the wind and the patter of rain on
the roof in the hard squall passing over the house.
"You came here first as a trader with sweet words and great
promises, asking me to look the other way while you worked your
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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 On Horsemanship by Xenophon: at once become dilated.
[21] Or, "in the racecourse or on the exercising-ground how readily he
distends his nostrils."
A comparatively large crest and small ears give a more typical and
horse-like appearance to the head, whilst lofty withers again allow
the rider a surer seat and a stronger adhesion between the shoulders
and the body.[22]
[22] Or if with L. D. [{kai to somati}], transl. "adhesion to the
horse's shoulders."
A "double spine,"[23] again, is at once softer to sit on than a
single, and more pleasing to the eye. So, too, a fairly deep side
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