The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: him the most elegant man in the world, the finest gentleman.
She has never seen anything like him; he is better, even, than the courier.
It was the courier probably who introduced him; and if he succeeds in marrying
the young lady, the courier will come in for a magnificent commission."
"I don't believe she thinks of marrying him," said Winterbourne,
"and I don't believe he hopes to marry her."
"You may be very sure she thinks of nothing. She goes on from
day to day, from hour to hour, as they did in the Golden Age.
I can imagine nothing more vulgar. And at the same time,"
added Mrs. Costello, "depend upon it that she may tell you
any moment that she is 'engaged.'"
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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 U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: at the north shelter had not reached levels high enough to result in
measurable exposures of the personnel who had been positioned there.
However, fallout activity was later detected in the north shelter
area, proof that part of the cloud did head in that direction. This
also explains why the monitoring device detected rising radiation
levels (1; 12).
After ascertaining that radiation levels along the roads leading from
the shelters to Broadway were within acceptable limits, the
radiological safety monitors and military police established
roadblocks at important intersections leading to ground zero. The
north shelter monitor and military police set up a post where the
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