| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: troop as it passed through an enemy country and entered the
domain of the chief against whom he had risen in revolt; but
Du-seen must have known Jor the chief and known that Jor would
not be waiting for him at the pass. Nevertheless he took
unwarranted chances. With one squad of a home-guard company I
could have conquered Caspak.
Nobs and I followed to the summit of the pass, and there we saw
the party defiling into the Galu country, the level of which
was not, on an average, over fifty feet below the summit of the
cliffs and about a hundred and fifty feet above the adjacent
Kro-lu domain. Immediately the landscape changed. The trees,
The People That Time Forgot |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: the padlock, and her fingers pressed on the link in the chain that
Gypsy Nan had described. It gave readily. She slipped it free,
and opened the door. There was faint, almost inaudible, protesting
creak from the hinges. She caught her breath quickly. Had anybody
heard it? It - it had seemed like a cannon shot. And then her lips
curled in sudden self-contempt. Who was there to hear it?
She stepped forward, closed the door silently behind her, and drew
out her flashlight. The ray cut through the blackness. She was
in what seemed like a small, outer storeroom, that was littered
with an untidy collection of boxes, broken furniture, and odds and
ends of all sorts. Ahead of her was an open door, and, through
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