| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: of the lake. There, from behind a tree he had seen with his own eyes
seen this submarine advance toward him, and stop at the mouth of
Black Rock Creek. Was it the famous machine for which the whole world
was seeking, which thus came directly to his feet?
When the submarine was close to the rocks, two men climbed out upon
its deck and stepped ashore. Was one of them this Master of the
World, who had not been seen since he was reported from Lake
Superior? Was this the mysterious "Terror" which had thus risen from
the depths of Lake Erie?
"I was alone," said Wells. "Alone on the edge of the Creek. If you
and your assistants, Mr. Strock had been there, we four against two,
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: He uncoiled his grass rope--it was the latest addition to his
armament, yet he was proficient with it. Often he traveled with
nothing more than his knife and his rope--they were light and easy
to carry. His spear and bow and arrows were cumbersome and he
usually kept one or all of them hidden away in a private cache.
Now he held a single coil of the long rope in his right hand,
and the balance in his left. The antelope was but a few paces
from him. Silently Korak leaped from his hiding place swinging
the rope free from the entangling shrubbery. The antelope sprang
away almost instantly; but instantly, too, the coiled rope, with
its sliding noose, flew through the air above him. With unerring
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