| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: have him. The Yankee lay in the shallow pit Scarlett had scraped
out under the scuppernong arbor. The uprights which held the thick
vines were rotten and that night Scarlett hacked at them with the
kitchen knife until they fell and the tangled mass ran wild over
the grave. The replacing of these posts was one bit of repair work
Scarlett did not suggest and, if the negroes knew why, they kept
their silence.
No ghost rose from that shallow grave to haunt her in the long
nights when she lay awake, too tired to sleep. No feeling of
horror or remorse assailed her at the memory. She wondered why,
knowing that even a month before she could never have done the
Gone With the Wind |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "Then lock her up," said Langwidere to her soldiers, and they led
Dorothy to a high tower at the north of the palace and locked her
securely within.
The soldiers afterward tried to lift Tiktok, but they found the
machine so solid and heavy that they could not stir it. So they left
him standing in the center of the drawing-room.
"People will think I have a new statue," said Langwidere, "so it won't
matter in the least, and Nanda can keep him well polished."
"What shall we do with the hen?" asked the colonel, who had just
discovered Billina in the work-basket.
"Put her in the chicken-house," answered the Princess. "Someday I'll
Ozma of Oz |
