| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: foes, as had matters gone otherwise they would have met the bane,
in sullen silence.
I came to Otomie, and to her also I told the news.
'I had hoped to die here where I am,' she answered. 'But so be it;
death is always to be found.'
Only my son rejoiced, because he knew that God had saved us all
from death by sword or hunger.
'Father,' he said, 'the Spaniards have given us life, but they take
our country and drive us out of it. Where then shall we go?'
'I do not know, my son,' I answered.
'Father,' the lad said again, 'let us leave this land of Anahuac
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White: constantly involved.
The sky was sun-and-shadow after the rain. Each and every
Arizonan predicted clearing.
"Why, it almost never rains in Arizona," said Jed Parker. "And
when it does it quits before it begins."
Nevertheless, about noon a thick cloud gathered about the tops of
the Galiuros above us. Almost immediately it was dissipated by
the wind, but when the peaks again showed, we stared with
astonishment to see that they were white with snow. It was as
though a magician had passed a sheet before them the brief
instant necessary to work his great transformation. Shortly the
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