| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: he said in a calm indifferent voice. The presence of a third person
in the room seemed to give him extraordinary courage.
Campbell frowned and bit his lip. "It will take about five hours,"
he answered.
"It will be time enough, then, if you are back at half-past seven, Francis.
Or stay: just leave my things out for dressing. You can have the evening
to yourself. I am not dining at home, so I shall not want you."
"Thank you, sir," said the man, leaving the room.
"Now, Alan, there is not a moment to be lost. How heavy this chest is!
I'll take it for you. You bring the other things." He spoke rapidly
and in an authoritative manner. Campbell felt dominated by him.
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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 Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: next day.
A man named Klipspringer was there so often and so long that he became
known as "the boarder."--I doubt if he had any other home. Of theatrical
people there were Gus Waize and Horace O'donavan and Lester Meyer and
George Duckweed and Francis Bull. Also from New York were the Chromes
and the Backhyssons and the Dennickers and Russel Betty and the
Corrigans and the Kellehers and the Dewars and the Scullys and S. W.
Belcher and the Smirkes and the young Quinns, divorced now, and Henry
L. Palmetto, who killed himself by jumping in front of a subway train
in Times Square.
Benny McClenahan arrived always with four girls. They were never quite
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