| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The girl fell backward from her mount, turning to grasp
Custer's arm as it closed about her. At the same instant
Barney closed the throttle, and threw all the weight of his
body upon the foot brake.
The gray roadster swerved toward the embankment as the
hind wheels skidded on the loose surface gravel. They were
at the turn. The horse was just abreast the bumper. There
was one chance in a thousand of making the turn were
the running beast out of the way. There was still a chance if
he turned ahead of them. If he did not turn--Barney hated
to think of what must follow.
The Mad King |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: banker's reply--he naturally consented, though he was really rather
bored and inclined to think of other things--she ran off to throw a
pelisse over her shoulders. In the drawing room there was now no
one with Steiner save the band of young men. These had by this time
dropped the very dregs of their glasses into the piano and were
talking of going, when one of their number ran in triumphantly. He
held in his hands a last remaining bottle, which he had brought back
with him from the pantry.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute!" he shouted. "Here's a bottle of
chartreuse; that'll pick him up! And now, my young friends, let's
hook it. We're blooming idiots."
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