| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: magnates of commerce go to and fro--in their incurable tradition
of commercialised Bladesovery, of meretricious gentry and
nobility sold for riches. I have been near enough to know. The
Irish and the Labour-men run about among their feet, making a
fuss, effecting little, they've got no better plans that I can
see. Respect it indeed! There's a certain paraphernalia of
dignity, but whom does it deceive? The King comes down in a gilt
coach to open the show and wears long robes and a crown; and
there's a display of stout and slender legs in white stockings
and stout and slender legs in black stockings and artful old
gentlemen in ermine. I was reminded of one congested afternoon I
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: have crept into our art from abroad.
Don't you think some of those foreign ideas are
apt to be -- well, dangerous? That is, to the un-
trained mind?
You can carry them too far, you know -- and if
you do they work into your subconsciousness.
One of the girls -- she belongs to the same Little
Group of Advanced Thinkers that I do -- has been so
taken with the Exotic that she wears orchids all the
time and just simply CRAVES Chinese food. "My
love," she said to me only yesterday, "I feel that I
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