| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: times by turns, and varying the sound, which seemed to be almost
articulate. They went some paces off, as if it were to confer
together, walking side by side, backward and forward, like
persons deliberating upon some affair of weight, but often
turning their eyes towards me, as it were to watch that I might
not escape. I was amazed to see such actions and behaviour in
brute beasts; and concluded with myself, that if the inhabitants
of this country were endued with a proportionable degree of
reason, they must needs be the wisest people upon earth. This
thought gave me so much comfort, that I resolved to go forward,
until I could discover some house or village, or meet with any of
 Gulliver's Travels |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: Turnbull inquest, and I recollected seeing Mrs. Brewster's name,
and my husband and I were just reading the account over when you
came in."
Kent gazed in perplexity at Mrs. Sylvester. "Why did Mrs. Brewster
laugh in the police court?" he asked.
"When Dr. Stone exclaimed to the deputy marshal - 'Your prisoner
appears ill!'" declared Mrs. Sylvester; she enjoyed the dramatic,
and that Kent was hanging on her words she was fully aware, in
spite of his expressionless face. "Dr. Stone lifted the burglar
in his arms and then Mrs. Brewster laughed as she laughed in
the corridor to-day - a soft gurgling laugh."
 The Red Seal |