| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: answered that I dare not; for a wise woman had prophesied of me,
sirs, that I should die at sea, and yet neither by water or battle,
wherefore I did not think right to meddle with the Lord's purposes.
And William Penberthy said, 'That he would sell his life, and that
dear, but never give it away.' But the lady said, 'Ah, how gladly
would I die! but then la paouvre garse,' which is in French 'the
poor maid,' meaning the little one. Then Mr. Oxenham fell into a
very great weeping, a weakness I never saw him in before or since;
and with many tears besought me never to desert that little maid,
whatever might befall; which I promised, swearing to it like a
heathen, but would, if I had been able, have kept it like a
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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 Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: was already half filled with Dyaks. Then he shoved the
boat out into the river, jumping aboard himself as its
prow cleared the gravelly beach.
For several minutes that long, hollowed log was a
veritable floating hell of savage, screaming men locked
in deadly battle. The sharp parangs of the head
hunters were no match for the superhuman muscles of the
creatures that battered them about; now lifting one
high above his fellows and using the body as a club to
beat down those nearby; again snapping an arm or leg as
one might break a pipe stem; or hurling a living
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