| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: remained seated. They stood there motionless for a few seconds,
craning forward somewhat and displaying the great white bosoms of
their shirt fronts.
"We count on you next Tuesday," said the countess to La Faloise, and
she invited Fauchery, who bowed.
Not a word was said of the play; Nana's name was not once mentioned.
The count was so glacially dignified that he might have been
supposed to be taking part at a sitting of the legislature. In
order to explain their presence that evening he remarked simply that
his father-in-law was fond of the theater. The door of the box must
have remained open, for the Marquis de Chouard, who had gone out in
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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 Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: a flimsy outside tin stove-pipe.
In the spring after this event
Old Whateley noticed the growing number of whippoorwills that
would come out of Cold Spring Glen to chirp under his window at
night. He seemed to regard the circumstance as one of great significance,
and told the loungers at Osborn's that he thought his time had
almost come.
'They whistle jest in tune with my breathin' naow,'
he said, 'an' I guess they're gittin' ready to ketch my soul.
They know it's a-goin' aout, an' dun't calc'late to miss it. Yew'll
know, boys, arter I'm gone, whether they git me er not. Ef they
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