| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: turning her head.
"What secrets - what do you mean?"
"Oh, I know perfectly well what's passing inside you. Now I think it
wouldn't be amiss to ask you - is friendship still enough?"
"Oh, don't ask me anything," growled Maskull. "I've far too many
problems in my head already. I only wish I could answer some of
them."
He stared stonily at the landscape. The beast was winging its way
toward a distant mountain, of singular shape. It was an enormous
natural quadrilateral pyramid, rising in great terraces and
terminating in a broad, flat top, on which what looked like green
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: "About Malaga?" said Thaddeus, with bitterness in his heart.
"Well, yes," she said; "if you wish to end your days in this house and
continue good friends with us, you must give her up. How an old
soldier--"
"I am only thirty-five, and haven't a white hair."
"You look old," she said, "and that's the same thing. How so careful a
manager, so distinguished a--"
The horrible part of all this was her evident intention to rouse a
sense of honor in his soul which she thought extinct.
"--so distinguished a man as you are, Thaddeus," she resumed after a
momentary pause which a gesture of his hand had led her to make, "can
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