| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: superior force, so that to me was left the remnants of
the yellow men within the throneroom.
They kept me busy, too; so busy that I began to wonder if
indeed I should ever be done with them. Slowly they pressed me
back into the room, and when they had all passed in after me,
one of them closed and bolted the door, effectually barring the
way against the men of Kantos Kan.
It was a clever move, for it put me at the mercy of a dozen
men within a chamber from which assistance was locked out, and it
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Davis: you find my shawl, George?"
But Perry was conscious of no rebuff, and turned
cheerfully to George. "It was one of those dramas of
real life, too unlikely to put into a novel. She was
the daughter of a poor clergyman in Weir, a devout, good
man, I believe. She had marvellous beauty and a devilish
disposition. She ran away, lived a wild life in Paris,
and became the mistress of a Russian Grand Duke. Her
death----"
He could not have told why he stopped. Mrs. Waldeaux
still watched him, attentive, but the sympathetic smile
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