| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: God's sake, come and get me!
It was a week ago that I wrote the preceding paragraph, which I
thought would end the written record of my life upon Caprona.
I had paused to put a new point on my quill and stir the crude ink
(which I made by crushing a black variety of berry and mixing it
with water) before attaching my signature, when faintly from the
valley far below came an unmistakable sound which brought me to
my feet, trembling with excitement, to peer eagerly downward from
my dizzy ledge. How full of meaning that sound was to me you may
guess when I tell you that it was the report of a firearm! For a
moment my gaze traversed the landscape beneath until it was
The Land that Time Forgot |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: travel by daylight. I glanced up and caught the eye of the girl in
blue.
"They are all mad," she said. Her tone was low, but I heard her
distinctly. "Don't take them seriously enough to defend yourself."
"I am glad you think I didn't do it," I observed meekly, over the
crowd. "Nothing else is of any importance.
The conductor had pulled out his note-book again. "Your name,
please," he said gruffly.
"Lawrence Blakeley, Washington."
"Your occupation?"
"Attorney. A member of the firm of Blakeley and McKnight."
The Man in Lower Ten |
