| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: realization of the possibility of failure of his quest,
and even then he would only admit that success was but
delayed. He would eat and sleep, and then set forth
again. The jungle was wide; but wide too were the
experience and cunning of Tarzan. Taglat might travel
far; but Tarzan would find him in the end, though he
had to search every tree in the mighty forest.
Soliloquizing thus, the ape-man followed the spoor of
Bara, the deer, the unfortunate upon which he had
decided to satisfy his hunger. For half an hour the
trail led the ape-man toward the east along a
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: and fills the little room with a glow of warmth and light made brighter by
contrast, for outside the night is chill and misty.
Before the open fireplace sits a stranger, his tall, slight figure reposing
in the broken armchair, his keen blue eyes studying the fire from beneath
delicately pencilled, drooping eyelids. One white hand plays thoughtfully
with a heavy flaxen moustache; yet, once he starts, and for an instant the
languid lids raise themselves; there is a keen, intent look upon the face
as he listens for something. Then he leans back in his chair, fills his
glass from the silver flask in his bag, and resumes his old posture.
Presently the door opens noiselessly. It is Lyndall, followed by Doss.
Quietly as she enters, he hears her, and turns.
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