| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: paraphernalia of the table were proportionally simple; though
everything had the appearance of comfort, and even of
neatness, the walls being covered with green cloth formed into
panels with red tape, and his bed festooned with curtains of
yellow cotton-stuff. If, in speculating upon the abstract
wants of man in such a state of exclusion, one were reduced to
a single book, the Sacred Volume - whether considered for the
striking diversity of its story, the morality of its doctrine,
or the important truths of its gospel - would have proved by
far the greatest treasure.
[Monday, 2nd July]
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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 Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: I-Gos. Come! he may revive at any moment and he must not find us
here."
I-Gos crossed to the body of his jeddak, knelt beside it for an
instant, and then returned past the couch to Gahan. The two quit
the chamber of O-Mai and took their way toward the spiral runway.
Here I-Gos led Gahan to a higher level and out upon the roof of
that portion of the palace from where he pointed to a high tower
quite close by. "There," he said, "lies the Princess of Helium,
and quite safe she will be until the time of the ceremony."
"Safe, possibly, from other hands, but not from her own," said
Gahan. "She will never become Jeddara of Manator--first will she
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