| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: holiday, as my mother imagines. I hate holidays.
PRAED. You make my blood run cold. Are you to have no romance,
no beauty in your life?
VIVIE. I dont care for either, I assure you.
PRAED. You cant mean that.
VIVIE. Oh yes I do. I like working and getting paid for it.
When I'm tired of working, I like a comfortable chair, a cigar, a
little whisky, and a novel with a good detective story in it.
PRAED [rising in a frenzy of repudiation] I dont believe it. I
am an artist; and I cant believe it: I refuse to believe it.
It's only that you havnt discovered yet what a wonderful world
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: be sure. However, he decided to let her have it at once
if possible, and took it upstairs for that purpose;
but on reaching the door of her room and looking
in at the keyhole he found there was no light within,
the fact being that Eustacia, without undressing,
had flung herself upon the bed, to rest and gather a
little strength for her coming journey. Her grandfather
concluded from what he saw that he ought not to disturb her;
and descending again to the parlour he placed the letter
on the mantelpiece to give it to her in the morning.
At eleven o'clock he went to bed himself, smoked for
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