| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the last I saw of him.
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PHUTRA AGAIN
I hastened to the cliff edge above Ja and helped him
to a secure footing. He would not listen to any thanks
for his attempt to save me, which had come so near miscarrying.
"I had given you up for lost when you tumbled into the
Mahar temple," he said, "for not even I could save you from
their clutches, and you may imagine my surprise when on
seeing a canoe dragged up upon the beach of the mainland
I discovered your own footprints in the sand beside it.
 At the Earth's Core |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: its strong reverberation from below colour the skin like an Indian
climate; the treatment, which consists mainly of the open air,
exposes even the sickliest to tan, and a tableful of invalids comes,
in a month or two, to resemble a tableful of hunters. But although
he may be thus surprised at the first glance, his astonishment will
grow greater, as he experiences the effects of the climate on
himself. In many ways it is a trying business to reside upon the
Alps: the stomach is exercised, the appetite often languishes; the
liver may at times rebel; and because you have come so far from
metropolitan advantages, it does not follow that you shall recover.
But one thing is undeniable - that in the rare air, clear, cold, and
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