| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: the flesh was so decayed and sunken that it literally fell off.
That job was the worst of all.
Time and again, after cutting away with the points of our
spears--our only tools--until we could stand it no longer, we
staggered off to the stream like drunken men, sick and faint with
the sight and smell of the mess.
But that, too, came to an end, and finally we marched off to
the camp, which we had removed a half-mile upstream, dragging after
us a piece of the hide about thirty feet long and half as wide. It
was not as heavy as we had thought, which made it all the better
for our purpose.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: Sure eneuch, we had a fair way and deep water all the time.
And two days ago, when the mornin' sun came through the fog,
we found ourselves just in the river opposite Galatz.
The Roumanians were wild, and wanted me right or wrong to take
out the box and fling it in the river. I had to argy wi'
them aboot it wi' a handspike. An' when the last o' them rose
off the deck wi' his head in his hand, I had convinced them that,
evil eye or no evil eye, the property and the trust of my
owners were better in my hands than in the river Danube.
They had, mind ye, taken the box on the deck ready to fling in,
and as it was marked Galatz via Varna, I thocht I'd let it lie
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: And I shall cause the bitterest tears
That you have ever shed.
The dark deeds of my outlawed race
Will then like virtues shine;
And men will pardon their disgrace,
Beside the guilt of mine.
For, who forgives the accursed crime
Of dastard treachery?
Rebellion, in its chosen time,
May Freedom's champion be;
Revenge may stain a righteous sword,
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: Which was true. For her dark-blue eyes were flashing, her colour was
hot in her cheeks, she looked full of a rebellious passion far from the
dejection of hopelessness. She noticed, ill the tussocky places of the
grass, cottony young cowslips standing up still bleared in their down.
And she wondered with rage, why it was she felt Clifford was so WRONG,
yet she couldn't say it to him, she could not say exactly WHERE he was
wrong.
'No wonder the men hate you,' she said.
'They don't!' he replied. 'And don't fall into errors: in your sense of
the word, they are NOT men. They are animals you don't understand, and
never could. Don't thrust your illusions on other people. The masses
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