| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain: and the isthmus which separated two lakes looked as if
one might stretch out on it and lie with both elbows
in the water, yet we knew invisible wagons were toiling
across it and finding the distance a tedious one.
This beautiful miniature world had exactly the appearance
of those "relief maps" which reproduce nature precisely,
with the heights and depressions and other details graduated
to a reduced scale, and with the rocks, trees, lakes,
etc., colored after nature.
I believed we could walk down to Wa"ggis or Vitznau
in a day, but I knew we could go down by rail in about
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: and you're long avenged. I'd change with you. And Sellers, you
were last, and you're avenged. And you others--you're avenged.
Lie quiet in your graves and give me peace!"
But they did not lie quiet in their graves and give him peace.
A group of specters trooped out of the shadows of dusk and,
gathering round him, escorted him to his bed.
When Duane had been riding the trails passion-bent to escape
pursuers, or passion-bent in his search, the constant action
and toil and exhaustion made him sleep. But when in hiding, as
time passed, gradually he required less rest and sleep, and his
mind became more active. Little by little his phantoms gained
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