| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Macbeth by William Shakespeare: Rosse. You must haue patience Madam
Wife. He had none:
His flight was madnesse: when our Actions do not,
Our feares do make vs Traitors
Rosse. You know not
Whether it was his wisedome, or his feare
Wife. Wisedom? to leaue his wife, to leaue his Babes,
His Mansion, and his Titles, in a place
From whence himselfe do's flye? He loues vs not,
He wants the naturall touch. For the poore Wren
(The most diminitiue of Birds) will fight,
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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 Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: for thinking that?"
I hesitated.
"If you have any reason for believing that your midnight guest
was Mr. Armstrong, other than his visit here the next night, you
ought to tell me, Miss Innes. We can take nothing for granted.
If, for instance, the intruder who dropped the bar and scratched
the staircase--you see, I know about that--if this visitor was a
woman, why should not the same woman have come back the following
night, met Mr. Armstrong on the circular staircase, and in alarm
shot him?"
"It was a man," I reiterated. And then, because I could think of
The Circular Staircase |
| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Close at my heel, in his now accustomed place, followed
Woola, the hound, and as I emerged upon the street Sola
rushed up to me as though I had been the object of some
search on her part. The cavalcade was returning to the plaza,
the homeward march having been given up for that day; nor,
in fact, was it recommenced for more than a week, owing
to the fear of a return attack by the air craft.
Lorquas Ptomel was too astute an old warrior to be
caught upon the open plains with a caravan of chariots and
children, and so we remained at the deserted city until the
danger seemed passed.
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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 The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: Knight when the great event of his coming should be at
hand.
The box couch was built of hard wood paneling and
was covered with pillows of soft leather and silk. The
bed-clothes were carefully stored in the locker beneath
the mattress cushion. No one would ever suspect its
use as a bed. The bathroom was fitted with a bureau
and no signs of a sleeping apartment disfigured the
effect of her one library, parlor, and reception-room.
A desk and bookcase stood at either end of the box
couch. The bookcase was filled with fiction--love
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