| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself
sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt.
Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts.
Later I began a vast but unsystematic exploration of the streets.
I asked for no names. It was enough that the pavements were full
of white men and women, the streets clanging with traffic, and
that the restful roar of a great city rang in my ears. The cable
cars glided to all points of the compass at once. I took them
one by one till I could go no further. San Francisco has been
pitched down on the sand bunkers of the Bikaneer desert. About
one fourth of it is ground reclaimed from the sea--any old-timers
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible: EZE 21:18 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
EZE 21:19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword
of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one
land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the
city.
EZE 21:20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the
Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
EZE 21:21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at
the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright,
he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
EZE 21:22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to
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