| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: When it was over I treated myself, with my glass, from my place in
the stalls, to a general survey of the boxes, making doubtless on
their contents the reflections, pointed by comparison, that are
most familiar to the wanderer restored to London. There was the
common sprinkling of pretty women, but I suddenly noted that one of
these was far prettier than the others. This lady, alone in one of
the smaller receptacles of the grand tier and already the aim of
fifty tentative glasses, which she sustained with admirable
serenity, this single exquisite figure, placed in the quarter
furthest removed from my stall, was a person, I immediately felt,
to cause one's curiosity to linger. Dressed in white, with
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: that she sometimes actually believed he knew she only feigned
perplexity. If he knew it therefore he tolerated it; if he
tolerated it he came back; and if he came back he liked her. This
was her seventh heaven; and she didn't ask much of his liking--she
only asked of it to reach the point of his not going away because
of her own. He had at times to be away for weeks; he had to lead
lets life; he had to travel--there were places to which he was
constantly wiring for "rooms": all this she granted him, forgave
him; in fact, in the long run, literally blessed and thanked him
for. If he had to lead his life, that precisely fostered his
leading it so much by telegraph: therefore the benediction was to
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