| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to die like flies.
"We had not been in the desert land long before the Arabs
were forced to kill their horses for food, and when we reached
the first gorge, across which it would have been impossible
to transport the animals, the balance of them were slaughtered
and the meat loaded upon the poor staggering blacks who still
survived.
"Thus we continued for two more days and now all but a
handful of blacks were dead, and the Arabs themselves had
commenced to succumb to hunger and thirst and the intense
heat of the desert. As far as the eye could reach back toward
Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: became vain or petty or jealous; that would have been
impossible. She only grew credulous and absorbed and blind. A
kind of gentle obstinacy, too, developed itself in her nature,
and all suggestion of defects in him fell off from her as from
a marble image of Faith. If he said or did anything, there was
no appeal; that was settled, let us pass to something else.
I almost blush to admit that Aunt Jane--of whom it could by no
means be asserted that she was a saintly lady, but only a very
charming one--rather rejoiced in this transformation.
"I like it better, my dear," she said, with her usual
frankness, to Kate. "Hope was altogether too heavenly for my
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