| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: heard with horror the low growls that came from the lips of
the naked giant. Schneider was trying to reach his foe's
throat with his fingers while, horror of horrors, Bertha Kircher
could see that the other was searching for the German's
jugular with his teeth!
Schneider seemed to realize this too, for he redoubled his
efforts to escape and finally succeeded in rolling over on top
of the ape-man and breaking away. Leaping to his feet he ran
for the window; but the ape-man was too quick for him and
before he could leap through the sash a heavy hand fell upon
his shoulder and he was jerked back and hurled across the
Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Tour Through Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe: of a thousand ton, and might build first-rate men-of-war too, if
there was occasion; and the like might be done in this river of
Ipswich, within about two or three miles of the town; so that it
would not be at all an out-of-the-way speaking to say, such a ship
was built at Ipswich, any more than it is to say, as they do, that
the ROYAL PRINCE, the great ship lately built for the South Sea
Company, was London built, because she was built at Limehouse.
And why then is not Ipswich capable of building and receiving the
greatest ships in the navy, seeing they may be built and brought up
again laden, within a mile and half of the town?
But the neighbourhood of London, which sucks the vitals of trade in
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