| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from A Drama on the Seashore by Honore de Balzac: dead, seeing her own writing. Cambremer said nothing, but he went to
Croisic, and heard that his son was in a billiard room; so then he
went to the mistress of the cafe, and said to her:--
"'I told Jacques not to use a piece of gold with which he will pay
you; give it back to me, and I'll give you white money in place of
it.'
"The good woman did as she was told. Cambremer took the money and just
said 'Good,' and then he went home. So far, all the town knows that;
but now comes what I alone know, though others have always had some
suspicion of it. As I say, Cambremer came home; he told his wife to
clean up their chamber, which is on the lower floor; he made a fire,
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: HERODE. Salome, dansez pour moi.
HERODIAS. Je ne veux pas qu'elle danse.
SALOME. Je n'ai aucune envie de danser, tetrarque.
HERODE. Salome, fille d'Herodias, dansez pour moi.
HERODIAS. Laissez la tranquille.
HERODE. Je vous ordonne de danser, Salome.
SALOME. Je ne danserai pas, tetrarque.
HERODIAS [riant] Voile comme elle vous obeit!
HERODE. Qu'est-ce que cela me fait qu'elle danse ou non? Cela ne
me fait rien. Je suis heureux ce soir. Je suis tres heureux.
Jamais je n'ai ete si heureux.
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