| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: could he have stopped a pig in a lane. A stubby beard covered the lower
half of his brick-red face. The most striking thing about Herky-Jerky,
however, was his perpetual grin. He looked very jolly, yet every time he
opened his mouth it was to utter bad language. He cursed the fire, the
pans, the coffee, the biscuits, all of which he handled most skillfully. It
was disgusting, and yet aside from this I rather liked him.
It grew dark very quickly while we were eating, and the wind that dipped
down into the gorge was cold. I kept edging closer and closer to the
blazing campfire. I had never tasted venison before, and rather disliked it
at first. But I soon cultivated a liking for it.
That night Stockton tied me securely, but in a way which made it easy for
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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 Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: The place had stirred up his imagination. He wrestled with
his ignorance as if he thought that by talking he might
presently worry out some picture of this forgotten world,
without metals, without beasts of burthen, without letters,
without any sculpture that has left a trace, and yet with a
sense of astronomical fact clear enough to raise the great
gnomon of Silbury, and with a social system complex enough to
give the large and orderly community to which the size of
Avebury witnesses and the traffic to which the green roads
testify.
The doctor had not realized before the boldness and
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