| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: indeed as old as the Jungle): 'It is long since I have seen a
man. Let him come, and he shall see all these things, for the
least of which very many men would die.'"
"That MUST be new game. And yet the Poison People do not tell us
when game is afoot. They are an unfriendly folk."
"It is NOT game. It is--it is--I cannot say what it is."
"We will go there. I have never seen a White Hood, and I wish to
see the other things. Did he kill them?"
"They are all dead things. He says he is the keeper of
them all."
"Ah! As a wolf stands above meat he has taken to his own lair.
The Second Jungle Book |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: tell me," the editor had kindly but firmly interrupted her lengthy preamble in
the long-looked-forward-to interview just ended. "And you have told me
enough," he had gone on (heartlessly, she was sure, as she went over the
conversation in its freshness). "You have done no newspaper work. You are
undrilled, undisciplined, unhammered into shape. You have received a
high-school education, and possibly topped it off with normal school or
college. You have stood well in English. Your friends have all told you how
cleverly you write, and how beautifully, and so forth and so forth. You think
you can do newspaper work, and you want me to put you on. Well, I am sorry,
but there are no openings. If you knew how crowded--"
"But if there are no openings," she had interrupted, in turn, "how did those
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