| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: cared to own. "Thank you, my loyal fellow."
Cleggett established a watch on deck that night, with a relief
every two hours. Towards morning George returned, with Dr.
Farnsworth and a nurse. This nurse, Miss Antoinette Medley, was
a black-eyed, slender girl with pretty hands and white teeth; she
gestured a great deal and smiled often. She and Dr. Farnsworth
devoted themselves at once to the young anarchist poet, who had
come out of his stupor, indeed, but was now babbling weakly in
the delirium of fever.
The night was not a cheerful one, and morning came gloomily out
of a gray bank of mist. Cleggett, as he looked about the boat in
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: came a perfect whale of a man. He must have been seven
feet tall, and proportioned accordingly. He still was
too far off to distinguish his features.
"Run," I said to Dian. "I can engage him until you get
a good start. Maybe I can hold him until you have gotten
entirely away," and then, without a backward glance,
I advanced to meet the Ugly One. I had hoped that Dian
would have a kind word to say to me before she went,
for she must have known that I was going to my death
for her sake; but she never even so much as bid me
good-bye, and it was with a heavy heart that I strode
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