| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: As the words dropped from Ascham's lips his host looked slowly
about the library, and every object in it stared back at him with
a stale unescapable familiarity. How sick he was of looking at
that room! It was as dull as the face of a wife one has wearied
of. He cleared his throat slowly; then he turned his head to the
lawyer and said: "I could explain the Lenman murder myself."
Ascham's eye kindled: he shared Granice's interest in criminal
cases.
"By Jove! You've had a theory all this time? It's odd you never
mentioned it. Go ahead and tell me. There are certain features
in the Lenman case not unlike this Ashgrove affair, and your idea
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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 Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: To satisfy his hungry griping maw.
KING JOHN.
There's for thy news. Return unto thy bark;
And if thou scape the bloody stroke of war
And do survive the conflict, come again,
And let us hear the manner of the fight.
[Exit Mariner.]
Mean space, my Lords, tis best we be dispersed
To several places, least they chance to land:
First you, my Lord, with your Bohemian Troops,
Shall pitch your battailes on the lower hand;
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