| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: the stern.
"You've shot nothing," says Case.
"I'm not on the shoot to-day," said I.
"Well, the devil go with you for me," says he.
"The same to you," says I.
But we stuck just the way we were; no fear of either of us moving.
Case laughed. "We can't stop here all day, though," said he.
"Don't let me detain you," says I.
He laughed again. "Look here, Wiltshire, do you think me a fool?"
he asked.
"More of a knave, if you want to know," says I.
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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 Rig Veda: up to
Daivavata.
8 Two wagon-teams, with damsels, twenty oxen, O Agni, Abhydvartin
Cayamdna,
The liberal Sovran, giveth me. This guerdon of Prthu's seed
is hard to
win from others.
HYMN XXVIII. Cows.
 The Rig Veda |