| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum: in a haughty tone. "Three heads are better
than two, and my pink brains are beautiful.
You can see em work."
"Well, go along," said the Magician, irritably.
"You're only an annoyance, anyhow, and I'm glad to
get rid of you."
"Thank you for nothing, then," answered the cat,
stiffly.
Dr. Pipt took a small basket from a cupboard
and packed several things in it. Then he handed
it to Ojo.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Eve and David by Honore de Balzac: business, thoroughly absorbed as he had been in experiments on a large
scale.
David went to Marsac. For the past six months he had gone over on
Saturday evening, returning again to L'Houmeau on Tuesday morning.
Eve, after much counsel from her father-in-law, had bought a house
called the Verberie, with three acres of land and a croft planted with
vines, which lay like a wedge in the old man's vineyard. Here, with
her mother and Marion, she lived a very frugal life, for five thousand
francs of the purchase money still remained unpaid. It was a charming
little domain, the prettiest bit of property in Marsac. The house,
with a garden before it and a yard at the back, was built of white
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: acceptance of my offers, or the conditions she makes.
"An old monkey knows what grimaces mean: I have offered her a thousand
francs a month and a carriage--that comes to fifteen hundred; five
hundred francs' worth of presents, and as much again in some outings,
dinners and play-going; you see, I am not deceiving you by a centime
when I say a thousand crowns.--A man of my age may well spend a
thousand crowns on his last fancy."
"Bless me, Papa Peyrade! and you still care enough for women to----?
But you are deceiving me. I am sixty myself, and I can do without 'em.
--However, if the case is as you state it, I quite understand that you
should have found it necessary to get yourself up as a foreigner to
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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 Lesson of the Master by Henry James: "I see - I see," our young man murmured.
His companion went on as if, now that the subject had been
broached, he was, as a person of imagination and tact, quite ready
to give every satisfaction - being both by his genius and his
method so able to enter into everything another might feel. "But
it's not only that; for honestly, at my age, I never dreamed - a
widower with big boys and with so little else! It has turned out
differently from anything one could have dreamed, and I'm fortunate
beyond all measure. She has been so free, and yet she consents.
Better than any one else perhaps - for I remember how you liked her
before you went away, and how she liked you - you can intelligently
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