| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: the apple butter vanished.
When the big cake had been cut and divided among the guests, Wetzel discovered
the gold ring within his share. He presented the ring to Betty, and gave his
privilege of kissing Susan to George Reynolds, with the remark: "George, I
calkilate Susan would like it better if you do the kissin' part." Now it was
known to all that George had long been an ardent admirer of Susan's, and it
was suspected that she was not indifferent to him. Nevertheless, she protested
that it was not fair. George acted like a man who had the opportunity of his
life. Amid uproarious laughter he ran Susan all over the room, and when he
caught her he pulled her hands away from her blushing face and bestowed a
right hearty kiss on her cheek. To everyone's surprise and to Wetzel's
Betty Zane |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: bourgeois specialists, thus nullifying "workers' control". In
reply, it was pointed out that individual command had
proved necessary in the army and had resulted in victory for
the revolution. The question was not between specialists
and no specialists. Everybody knew that specialists were
necessary. The question was how to get the most out of
them. Effective political control had secured that bourgeois
specialists, old officers, led to victory the army of the Red
Republic. The same result could be secured in the factories
in the same way. It was pointed out that in one year they
had succeeded in training 32,000 Red Commanders, that is
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