The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: experienced no permanent vision impairment (1; 17).
People as far away as Santa Fe and El Paso saw the brilliant light of
the detonation. Windows rattled in the areas immediately surrounding
the test site, waking sleeping ranchers and townspeople. To dispel
any rumors that might compromise the security of Project TRINITY, the
Government announced that an Army munitions dump had exploded.
However, immediately after the destruction of Hiroshima, the
Government revealed to the public what had actually occurred in the
New Mexico desert (12; 13).
Immediately after the shot, Medical Group personnel began the
radiological monitoring activities described in section 3.1.2. At
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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 Herland by Charlotte Gilman: thought that she was some quarry he was pursuing, something
to catch and conquer.
I think that, owing to all those differences I spoke of, they
soon lost the common ground they had at first, and were unable
to meet sanely and dispassionately. I fancy too--this is pure
conjecture--that he had succeeded in driving Alima beyond her
best judgment, her real conscience, and that after that her own
sense of shame, the reaction of the thing, made her bitter perhaps.
They quarreled, really quarreled, and after making it up once
or twice, they seemed to come to a real break--she would not be
alone with him at all. And perhaps she was a bit nervous, I don't
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