| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: Nevertheless, beneath his habitual bantering tone Susy discerned
a change. The disaster had shocked him profoundly; already, in
his brief sojourn among his people and among the great
possessions so tragically acquired, old instincts had awakened,
forgotten associations had spoken in him. Susy listened to him
wistfully, silenced by her imaginative perception of the
distance that these things had put between them.
"It was horrible ... seeing them both there together, laid out
in that hideous Pugin chapel at Altringham ... the poor boy
especially. I suppose that's really what's cutting me up now,"
he murmured, almost apologetically.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: interfecerit, multis sese nobilibus principibusque populi Romani gratum
esse facturum (id se ab ipsis per eorum nuntios compertum habere), quorum
omnium gratiam atque amicitiam eius morte redimere posset. Quod si
decessisset et liberam possessionem Galliae sibi tradidisset, magno se
illum praemio remuneraturum et quaecumque bella geri vellet sine ullo eius
labore et periculo confecturum.
Multa a Caesare in eam sententiam dicta sunt quare negotio desistere
non posset: neque suam neque populi Romani consuetudinem pati ut optime
meritos socios desereret, neque se iudicare Galliam potius esse Ariovisti
quam populi Romani. Bello superatos esse Arvernos et Rutenos a Q. Fabio
Maximo, quibus populus Romanus ignovisset neque in provinciam redegisset
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