| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: several miles west of the cabin where Carley had encountered Haze Ruff. She
remembered the curves and stretches, and especially the steep jump-off
where the road led down off the rim into the canyon. Here she dismounted
and walked. From the foot of this descent she knew every rod of the way
would be familiar to her, and, womanlike, she wanted to turn away and fly
from them. But she kept on and mounted again at level ground.
The murmur of the creek suddenly assailed her ears--sweet, sad, memorable,
strangely powerful to hurt. Yet the sound seemed of long ago. Down here
summer had advanced. Rich thick foliage overspread the winding road of
sand. Then out of the shade she passed into the sunnier regions of isolated
pines. Along here she had raced Calico with Glenn's bay; and here she had
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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 Lemorne Versus Huell by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard: "Speak of yourself," he said.
"Speak you."
"I am what I seem, a man within your sphere. By all the accidents
of position and circumstance suited to it. Have you not learned
it?"
"I am not what I seem. I never wore so splendid a dress as this
till tonight, and shall not again."
He gave the fan such a twirl that its slender sticks snapped, and
it dropped like the broken wing of a bird.
"Mr. Uxbridge, that fan belongs to Mrs. Bliss."
He threw it out of the window.
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