| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: grinned.
"Gray!" I could not believe even his corroboration of my own eyes.
"But my clothes were blue!" The porter was amused: he dived under
the curtains and brought up a pair of shoes. "Your shoes, sir," he
said with a flourish. "Reckon you've been dreaming, sir.
Now, there are two things I always avoid in my dress - possibly an
idiosyncrasy of my bachelor existence. These tabooed articles are
red neckties and tan shoes. And not only were the shoes the porter
lifted from the floor of a gorgeous shade of yellow, but the scarf
which was run through the turned over collar was a gaudy red. It
took a full minute for the real import of things to penetrate my
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The War in the Air by H. G. Wells: practical destruction of the central government at Pekin by a
handful of British and German airships that had escaped from the
main battles rendered that revolt invincible. In Yokohama
appeared barricades, the black flag and the social revolution.
With that the whole world became a welter of conflict.
So that a universal social collapse followed, as it were a
logical consequence, upon world-wide war. Wherever there were
great populations, great masses of people found themselves
without work, without money, and unable to get food. Famine was
in every working-class quarter in the world within three weeks of
the beginning of the war. Within a month there was not a city
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