| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: "We'd have had a dozen bad jams here before now with all these logs
in the river," said he to Tim Nolan, who was in charge of that beat.
"And as it is," said Tim, "we've had but the one little wing jam."
The piers to define the channel along certain shallows also saved
the rear crew much labour in the matter of stranded logs.
Everything was very satisfactory. Even old man Reed held to his
chastened attitude, and made no trouble. In fact, he seemed glad to
turn an honest penny by boarding the small crew in charge of
sluicing the logs.
No trouble was experienced until Heinzman's rollways were reached.
Here Orde had, as he had promised his partner, boomed a free channel
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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 Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: to the War Control, he was so wanting in imagination in any
sphere but his own, that he laughed. Small matter to him that
Paris was burning. His mother and father and sister lived at
Caudebec; and the only sweetheart he had ever had, and it was
poor love-making then, was a girl in Rouen. He slapped his
second-in-command on the shoulder. 'Now,' he said, 'there's
nothing on earth to stop us going to Berlin and giving them
tit-for-tat.... Strategy and reasons of state--they're over....
Come along, my boy, and we'll just show these old women what we
can do when they let us have our heads.'
He spent five minutes telephoning and then he went out into the
The Last War: A World Set Free |
