| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Glowed the eyes of old Iagoo.
"Ugh!" he answered very fiercely;
"Ugh!" they answered all and each one.
Seized the wooden bowl the old man,
Closely in his bony fingers
Clutched the fatal bowl, Onagon,
Shook it fiercely and with fury,
Made the pieces ring together
As he threw them down before him.
Red were both the great Kenabeeks,
Red the Ininewug, the wedge-men,
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: and like a beggar take what offered. There was a certain nobility
in it. As Clara saw, he owned himself beaten, and he wanted
to be taken back whether or not. That she could do for him.
It was three o'clock.
"I am going by the four-twenty," said Paul again to Clara.
"Are you coming then or later?"
"I don't know," she said.
"I'm meeting my father in Nottingham at seven-fifteen,"
he said.
"Then," she answered, "I'll come later."
Dawes jerked suddenly, as if he had been held on a strain.
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