| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain: of flour, and construct a bullet-proof dough.
Work this into the form of a disk, with the edges turned
up some three-fourths of an inch. Toughen and kiln-dry
in a couple days in a mild but unvarying temperature.
Construct a cover for this redoubt in the same way and
of the same material. Fill with stewed dried apples;
aggravate with cloves, lemon-peel, and slabs of citron;
add two portions of New Orleans sugars, then solder
on the lid and set in a safe place till it petrifies.
Serve cold at breakfast and invite your enemy.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: And whereso'er he is he's surely dead.
[Clifford groans and dies.]
EDWARD.
Whose soul is that which takes her heavy leave?
RICHARD.
A deadly groan, like life and death's departing.
EDWARD.
See who it is; and, now the battle's ended,
If friend or foe, let him be gently us'd.
RICHARD.
Revoke that doom of mercy, for 't is Clifford,
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