| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: That after houres, with sorrow chide vs not
Rom. Amen, amen, but come what sorrow can,
It cannot counteruaile the exchange of ioy
That one short minute giues me in her sight:
Do thou but close our hands with holy words.
Then Loue-deuouring death do what he dare,
It is inough. I may call her mine
Fri. These violent delights haue violent endes,
And in their triumph: die like fire and powder;
Which as they kisse consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his owne deliciousnesse,
Romeo and Juliet |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: saddle, threw the reins over the horse's head to the ground, and
slipped his revolver from its holster and back to make sure that
he could draw it easily. Then he passed springily across the road
to the hotel and up the stairs. He trod lightly, stealthily, and
by his very wariness defeated his purpose of eluding observation.
For a pair of keen eyes from the hotel office glimpsed the figure
stealing past so noiselessly, and promptly followed up the
stairway.
"Hope I don't intrude at this happy family gathering."
Helen, who had been pouring a glass of cordial for the spent and
wounded sheepman, put the glass down on the table and turned at
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