| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: joint of each paving-stone was clearly marked out. Mary then saw
Katharine raise her eyes again to the moon, with a contemplative look
in them, as though she were setting that moon against the moon of
other nights, held in memory. Some one in the room behind them made a
joke about star-gazing, which destroyed their pleasure in it, and they
looked back into the room again.
Ralph had been watching for this moment, and he instantly produced his
sentence.
"I wonder, Miss Hilbery, whether you remembered to get that picture
glazed?" His voice showed that the question was one that had been
prepared.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: table and eat; and when I have told you all, you will say it was
not Ill-Luck, but Good-Luck, that brought you."
The Fiddler had his own mind about that; but, all the same, down
he sat at the table, and fell to with knife and fork at the good
things, as though he had not had a bite to eat for a week of
Sundays.
"I am the richest man in the world," says the little old man,
after a while.
"I am glad to hear it," says the Fiddler.
"You may well be," said the old man, "for I am all alone in the
world, and without wife or child. And this morning I said to
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Dumnorigi custodes ponit, ut quae agat, quibuscum loquatur scire possit.
Eodem die ab exploratoribus certior factus hostes sub monte consedisse
milia passuum ab ipsius castris octo, qualis esset natura montis et qualis
in circuitu ascensus qui cognoscerent misit.Renuntiatum est facilem esse.
De tertia vigilia T. Labienum, legatum pro praetore, cum duabus legionibus
et iis ducibus qui iter cognoverant summum iugum montis ascendere iubet;
quid sui consilii sit ostendit. Ipse de quarta vigilia eodem itinere quo
hostes ierant ad eos contendit equitatumque omnem ante se mittit.
P. Considius, qui rei militaris peritissimus habebatur et in exercitu
L. Sullae et postea in M. Crassi fuerat, cum exploratoribus praemittitur.
Prima luce, cum summus mons a [Lucio] Labieno teneretur, ipse ab
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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 Paradise Lost by John Milton: Antagonist of Heaven's Almighty King,)
Amply have merited of me, of all
The infernal empire, that so near Heaven's door
Triumphal with triumphal act have met,
Mine, with this glorious work; and made one realm,
Hell and this world, one realm, one continent
Of easy thorough-fare. Therefore, while I
Descend through darkness, on your road with ease,
To my associate Powers, them to acquaint
With these successes, and with them rejoice;
You two this way, among these numerous orbs,
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