| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: human body end by growing callous, what becomes of those of the judge
who is incessantly compelled to search the inner folds of the soul?
Martyrs to their mission, magistrates are all their lives in mourning
for their lost illusions; crime weighs no less heavily on them than on
the criminal. An old man seated on the bench is venerable, but a young
judge makes a thoughtful person shudder. The examining judge in this
case was young, and he felt obliged to say to the public prosecutor,--
"Do you think that woman was her husband's accomplice? Ought we to
take her into custody? Is it best to question her?"
The prosecutor replied, with a careless shrug of his shoulders,--
"Montefiore and Diard were two well-known scoundrels. The maid
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: "All right -- that'll do. Only if you get married I'll
be more lonesomer than ever."
"No you won't. You'll come and live with me.
Now stir out of this and we'll go to digging."
They worked and sweated for half an hour. No
result. They toiled another half-hour. Still no result.
Huck said:
"Do they always bury it as deep as this?"
"Sometimes -- not always. Not generally. I reckon
we haven't got the right place."
So they chose a new spot and began again. The
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